Admission Control Algorithms and Reservation Protocol for Supporting Mobile Hosts in an Integrated Services Packet Network

This paper considers the support of real-time applications to mobile hosts in an Integrated Services Packet Network. We have proposed a service model for mobile hosts that can support adaptive applications which can withstand wide range of available bandwidth, as well as applications which require mobility independent service guarantees. We describe an admission control scheme and a reservation protocol for implementing this service model. Our admission control scheme achieves high utilization of network resources. KEYWORDS: Integrated Services Packet Network, mobile multimedia, Quality of Service, admission control, reservation protocol. 1 Introduction Recent progress in computing technology and wireless digital communication has made portable computers such as laptops, palmtops and personal digital assistants easily available. This has led to an intensive research in the area of Mobile Computing to provide mobile users access to an inter network. The research, so far, has focussed o..