Resource Reservation Protocol ( RSVP )

RSVP allows Internet real-time applications to request a specific end-to-end QoS for data stream before they start transmitting data. In this paper is presented firstly an overview of RSVP to get used with it. After that it is explained the different quality of services actually available and the relation between QoS and RSVP. Then it is discussed the fundamentals about RSVP as a protocol and to finnish we will tell some points about RSVP and wireless networks, the problems that it has and the actual researches or solutions of them.