The Osi95 Transport Service with Multimedia Support

ISBN-13: 9783540583165 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 515 str.

Andre Danthine

Opis

This report describes a networking environment (LANs and B-ISDN) which has been designed as a transport service to meet new requirements and to offer services at network and sub-network levels.

Spis treści

The Networking Environment of the Nineties and the Need for New Standards.- The OSI95 Project.- The XTP Study.- Modelling and Analysing the Xpress Transfer Protocol (XTP).- Validation of the Xpress Transfer Protocol (XTP).- The Requirements of the New Applications.- Distributed Multimedia Communication System Requirements.- Orchestration Services for Distributed Multimedia Synchronisation.- Integrated Quality of Service for Multimedia Communications.- The OSI95 Transport Service Design.- The QoS Enhancements in OSI95.- A Method for Applying LOTOS at an Early Design Stage and Its Application to the ISO Transport Protocol.- The OSI95 Connection-Mode Transport Service.- The Connection Release Facilities in the OSI95 Transport Service.- The OSI95 Connectionless-Mode Transport Services.- On the Provision of a Fast Connect Facility in a Connection-Mode Transport Service.- The LOTOS Specification of the Enhanced Transport Service.- ATM and the New Communication Environment.- B-ISDN Services and their Relation with the OSI Protocol Reference Model.- ATM Network Services for Workstations.- Specific Studies.- Analysis of a Delay Based Congestion Avoidance Algorithm.- VLSI Support for Transport Protocols.- Time Extension of LOTOS.- Extended LOTOS.- The Tick-Tock Case Study for the Assessment of Timed FDTs.- Assessment of Extended LOTOS.- Standardisation.- OSI95 Contributions to ISO/IEC and ETSI.- Publications and Available Reports from OSI95.- Postscript.- Appendix: LOTOS Specification of the OSI95 Transport Service.