Error Control for Continuous Media and Multipoint Applications
Christos C. Papadopoulos · Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis) · 1995
Emerging high-speed networks like ATM have stirred excitement with their potential to support multimedia, continuous media (CM) and multipoint applications. Example applications include conferencing, collaborative work, video-on-demand, information browsing, multimedia magazines, voting systems, etc. In addition to high bandwidth, future networks will provide both quality of service guarantees to support CM applications and efficient multicast to support multipoint applications. However, before these new network services can be successfully realized, changes are required in other protocol layers, the network interface [12] and the operating system [16]. A protocol layer that will undergo significant changes is the transport layer. The traditional transport layer functions, including connection management, error, flow and congestion control, have to evolve to support CM and multipoint applications. To support CM applications, the transport layer must provide bound