Connection Establishment for Multi-Party Real-Time Communication

. There is considerable interest in the network community in supporting real-time multi-party applications, such as video conferencing. The Tenet Group at UC Berkeley and ICSI has designed and implemented protocols that provide quality of service (QoS) guarantees for real-time traffic on packet switching networks. Suite 2 of the Tenet protocols provides scalable, flexible and efficient network support for real-time multi-party connections. We outline our method of connection establishment and describe the design issues and alternatives, and our decisions. Preliminary measurements confirm the viability of our approach for realtime multicast connection establishment. 1 Introduction The design goals and principles of multicast real-time channel establishment in the Tenet Suite 2 are described, along with the mechanisms that support the establishment procedure. The suite described in this paper is based on the Tenet Suite 1 [1]. Therefore, the approach taken in Suite 1 is described in Sec..