Network architecture frameworks to support real-time communication performance guarantees.

摘要

Recent technological advances have motivated the development of a new class of applications, called multimedia applications. These applications exchange many types of information which require real-time performance guarantees. The design of network architectures to support real-time performance requirement guarantees is the focus of this thesis.;In this thesis, two new network architectures which provide real-time performance guarantees are proposed. The first architecture, called