Real-time Communication through a Distributed Resource Reservation Approach

this paper aims at avoiding problems with a centralized bandwidth broker for resource reservation for bandwidth in a throttled real-time network [18] [2]. A centralized broker (such as a 'GlobeThrottle' [2]) is a single point of failure in a distributed system and is also a hot-spot resource, which all nodes of the system use for registering new real-time channels. To avoid both these problems we propose a distributed algorithm to be used instead of a central bandwidth broker. Also, the GlobeThrottle approach uses TCP/IP communication for channel allocation, which gives indeterministic time channel allocation. However, this problem is not addressed in this pape