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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