Quality of Service Support for Multimedia Data on Internet (Abstract)

In order to support mutimedia data transfers, the underlying network should support quality of service (QoS) guarantees. The QoS guarantees by the network and the associated systems (hardware/software) is a complex task. In this talk, I’ll outline the various issues related to the QoS in the Internet environment. The notion of QoS routing will be described in detail. Various options for routing and their associated overheads will be presented. Implementation issues will also be discussed.