A Realtime Internet Protocol for Loss- and Delay-Sensitive Audio-Video Applications

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 116, No. 1, pp. 29–35
Abstract: This paper remarks on the challenges of supporting realtime traffic flows, notably loss-and delay-sensitive audio-video applications, in wide-area internet protocol (IP) networks. It also describes a relevant protocol with exceptional quality-of-service capabilities. A survey of related techniques, from simple “best-effort” to over provisioning, to now-popular prioritizations proposals (e.g., conventional use of IETF DiffServ), highlights deficiencies in each. The discussion leads to mention of time-based resource reservation methods, of which autonomous flow scheduling is shown to collectively excel in terms of network utilization, performance attributes, ease of deployment in existing internets and intranets, and the ability to provide an assured “network busy.” The protocol is described in detail, emphasizing means for dynamically establishing flows, and then distributed, and autonomous scheduling of the associated heterogeneous, critical applications. It provides zero packet loss and mini-mal-to-no congestion-based delay and jitter. Concluding comments briefly describe autonomous flow scheduling in relation to MPLS and the OSI seven-layer stack.
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
DOI: 10.5594/J16113
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J16113
Author(s): Curtis A. SillerRivulet Communications, Inc.
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Curtis Siller is chief technology officer (CTD) at Rivulet Communications, Inc. His prior experience spans 35 years, initially with Bell Laboratories, then as CTO atCetacean Networks, Inc., then later as an independent consultant, before joining Rivulet. His R&D activities embrace electromagnetic theory, signal processing, communication theory, cable network protocols, data network conception and design, and packet networking of realtime applications. Siller edited a book on optical networks and contributed to three other reference texts. He holds eight patents and has authored nearly 70 peer-reviewed technical papers. Siller is a Fellow of both Bell Labs and IEEE, and the recipient of numerous industry and career awards He was president of the IEEE Communications Society during 2004 to 2005, and is now Division III director-elect on the IEEE Board of Directors.
Steve ChenRivulet Communications, Inc.
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Steve Chen is vice-president of technology at Rivulet Communications, Inc. His technical interests for the past ten years have principally dealt with realtime IP communications. including video, voice, and data. He previously worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory and Texas Instruments on signal processing technologies, and at GeoPhone Company, LLC, on satellite communications technologies and products. Chen was an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He received a BSEE from Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, and an MS and PhD from Rutgers University.
Copyright: © 2007 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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