Resource Partitioning for Real-time Communication

We investigate the network resource partitioning problem for real-time communication. Resource partitioning is useful for a number of applications, including virtual private subnetworks, advance reservation of realtime network services, fast establishment of real-time connections and support for mobile computing with real-time communication. We propose a scheme where resource partitioning requires extra computation only at connection establishment time, and where per-packet scheduling and rate control do not require any extra work for supporting resource partitioning. 1. Introduction The increasing speed of computer networks and the improvement of workstation capabilities are enabling a new class of distributed applications, those involving multimedia data. It is widely believed that these applications should be supported in the general framework of real-time communication [5], [1], [10]. Real-time communication requires predictable performance (e.g., that the end-to-end data deliver..