Connection Establishment for Multi-Party Real-Time Communication

	       R. Bettati, D. Ferrari, A. Gupta, W. Heffner,
		 W. Howe, M. Moran, Q. Nguyen, R. Yavatkar

			      The Tenet Group
		  University of California, Berkeley, and
		  International Computer Science Institute

				  ABSTRACT

	     There is considerable interest in the network community
	     in  supporting real-time multi-party applications, such
	     as video conferencing. The Tenet Group at  UC  Berkeley
	     and  ICSI  has  designed and implemented protocols that
	     provide quality of service (QoS) guarantees  for  real-
	     time  traffic on packet switching networks.  Suite 2 of
	     the Tenet protocols  provides  scalable,  flexible  and
	     efficient  network  support  for  real-time multi-party
	     connections.   We  outline  our  method  of  connection
	     establishment and describe the design issues and alter-
	     natives, and our  decisions.  Preliminary  measurements
	     confirm  the  viability  of  our approach for real-time
	     multicast connection establishment.

	     Key words: Multicast connection establishment; realtime 
		communication; multimedia networking.