Resource Partitioning for Real-time Communication

	Domenico Ferrari, FELLOW, IEEE  and  Amit Gupta

			Abstract

We investigate the network resource partitioning problem for real-time
communication. Resource partitioning is useful for a number of
applications, including virtual private subnetworks, advance
reservation of real-time network services, fast establishment of
real-time connections and support for mobile computing with real-time
communication. We propose a scheme where resource partitioning requires
extra computation only at connection establishment time, and where
per-packet scheduling and rate control do not require any extra work
for supporting resource partitioning.