TITLE: Distributed advance reservation of real-time connections

AUTHORS: Domenico Ferrari, Amit Gupta, Giorgio Ventre
	Tenet Group,
	University of California at Berkeley, and
	International Computer Science Institute

ABSTRACT:
The ability to reserve real-time connections in advance is essential in
all distributed multi-party applications (i.e., applications involving
multiple human beings) using a network that
controls admissions to provide good quality of service. This paper
discusses the requirements of the clients of an advance reservation
service, and a distributed design for such a service. The design
is described within the context of the Tenet Real-Time Protocol
Suite 2, a suite being developed for multi-party communication,
which will offer advance reservation capabilities to its clients
based on the principles and the mechanisms proposed in the paper.
Some simulation results about the performance
of these mechanisms are also presented.

KEYWORDS: Resource management/reservation, admission control, communication
protocols, advance reservations