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T1 - Meta-signalling for open network control
AU - Edwards, Christopher
AU - Waddington, Daniel
AU - Hutchison, David
PY - 1999/3
Y1 - 1999/3
N2 - Distributed applications have wide ranging requirements. Message-based applications must now co-exist with multimedia-based applications that often require precise bounds on the delivery of data. A single best effort service is no longer sufficient. Attempts at supporting a wide variety of applications have come from different directions, and have inevitably led to a scenario where one is better at supporting a certain type of application than the other. What is clear is that different network services and different protocol stacks are required in order to satisfy the needs of the emerging variety of application types. This paper discusses an approach to providing seamless integration for different network control mechanisms, providing access to network services in a clear and consistent manner. We build on the previously defined Open Service Model and introduce the idea of meta-signalling, used to negotiate end-to-end network requirements. We employ the Internet Protocol as a means for signalling control information, and object technology as a mechanism for providing distributed resource management. We look at the requirements for a signalling protocol, notably reliability, low bit rate and low delay, and consider how in the context of an IP network we can provide a level of quality of service for signalling messages
AB - Distributed applications have wide ranging requirements. Message-based applications must now co-exist with multimedia-based applications that often require precise bounds on the delivery of data. A single best effort service is no longer sufficient. Attempts at supporting a wide variety of applications have come from different directions, and have inevitably led to a scenario where one is better at supporting a certain type of application than the other. What is clear is that different network services and different protocol stacks are required in order to satisfy the needs of the emerging variety of application types. This paper discusses an approach to providing seamless integration for different network control mechanisms, providing access to network services in a clear and consistent manner. We build on the previously defined Open Service Model and introduce the idea of meta-signalling, used to negotiate end-to-end network requirements. We employ the Internet Protocol as a means for signalling control information, and object technology as a mechanism for providing distributed resource management. We look at the requirements for a signalling protocol, notably reliability, low bit rate and low delay, and consider how in the context of an IP network we can provide a level of quality of service for signalling messages
KW - Internet
KW - computer network reliability
KW - distributed object management
KW - open systems
KW - protocols
KW - quality of service
KW - telecommunication signallingInternet Protocol
KW - Open Service Model
KW - control information signalling
KW - data delivery
KW - distributed applications
KW - distributed resource management
KW - end-to-end network requirement negotiation
KW - low bit rate
KW - low delay
KW - message-based applications
KW - meta-signalling
KW - multimedia-based applications
KW - network service access
KW - object technology
KW - open network control
KW - protocol stacks
KW - reliability
KW - signalling protocol cs_eprint_id
KW - 2149 cs_uid
KW - 421
M3 - Conference paper
SP - 67
EP - 76
T2 - 1999 IEEE Second Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming, 1999. OPENARCH '99.
Y2 - 26 March 1999 through 27 March 1999
ER -