To Reserve or not to reserve
To Reserve
Multimedia needs resource reservation
Multimedia is Hard Real Time (1992)
No resources -> Busy
Not To Reserve
Multimedia does not require resource reservation
It just needs bandwidth
Adaptable applications
Eg: MBONE
Better degraded than busy
Applications do not known how many bandwidth they need (compression)
To Reserve a little
We need to warn the routers of multimedia flows
RSVP
Protocol without guarantees
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