Abstract

Transport protocols currently in use are designed for highly unreliable networks such as Ethernet. They have many overheads when used over more reliable networks like ATM networks. They also don't provide any QoS guarantees to the applications. The objective of the research here is to provide a multimedia-efficient transport subsystem with network QoS management for reliability, bandwidth and end-to-end delay quality requirements. The transport subsystem comprises of a Network Broker which performs the QoS management tasks and a simple transport protocol, called Multimedia-Efficient Transport Protocol which provides support for QoS configuration and management and enforcement of QoS guarantees.

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