TY - GEN

T1 - A Critique of Modern Internet Protocols: The Issue of Support for Multimedia

AU - Hutchison, David

AU - El-Marakby, Randa

AU - Mathy, Laurent

PY - 1997

Y1 - 1997

N2 - The provision and support of new distributed multimedia services are of prime concern for telecommunications operators and suppliers. Clearly, the potential of the latest Internet protocols to contribute communications components is of considerable interest to them. In this paper we present three of the major new protocols introduced into the Internet environment to support real-time and multimedia communications. These are respectively IPv6 (the new version of the Internet protocol), RSVP (Resource Reservation Protocol) and RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) with its control protocol RTCP. We then attempt to review these protocols critically in order to assess their suitability for purpose.

AB - The provision and support of new distributed multimedia services are of prime concern for telecommunications operators and suppliers. Clearly, the potential of the latest Internet protocols to contribute communications components is of considerable interest to them. In this paper we present three of the major new protocols introduced into the Internet environment to support real-time and multimedia communications. These are respectively IPv6 (the new version of the Internet protocol), RSVP (Resource Reservation Protocol) and RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) with its control protocol RTCP. We then attempt to review these protocols critically in order to assess their suitability for purpose.

U2 - 10.1007/BFb0037372

DO - 10.1007/BFb0037372

M3 - Conference contribution/Paper

SN - 978-3-540-63078-4

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

SP - 507

EP - 522

BT - Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques — ECMAST '97 Second European Conference Milan, Italy, May 21–23, 1997 Proceedings

A2 - Fdida , Serge

A2 - Morganti, Michele

PB - Springer Verlag

CY - Berlin

ER -