Title of Dissertation: Supporting Distributed Multimedia Applications on
ATM Networks
Title of Dissertation: Supporting Distributed Multimedia Applications on
ATM Networks
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1998-10-15
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Saha, Debanjan
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Abstract
ATM offers a number of features, such as high-bandwidth, and provision
for per-connection quality of service guarantees, making it particularly
attractive to multimedia applications. Unfortunately, the bandwidth
available at ATM's data-link layer is not visible to the applications due
to operating system (OS) bottlenecks at the host-network interface.
Similarly, the promise of per-connection service guarantees is still
elusive due to the lack of appropriate traffic control mechanisms. In
this dissertation, we investigate both of these problems, taking
multimedia applications as examples.
The OS bottlenecks are not limited to the network interfaces, but affect
the performance of the entire I/O subsystem. We propose to alleviate OS's
I/O bottleneck by according more autonomy to I/O devices and by using a
connection oriented framework for I/O transfers. We present experimental
results on a video conferencing testbed demonstrating the tremendous
performance impact of the proposed I/O architecture on networked
multimedia applications.
To address the problem of quality of service support in ATM networks, we
propose a simple cell scheduling mechanism, named carry-over round robin
(CORR). Using analytical techniques, we analyze the delay performance of
CORR scheduling. Besides providing guarantees on delay, CORR is also fair
in distributing the excess bandwidth. We show that albeit its simplicity,
CORR is very competitive with other more complex schemes both in terms of
delay performance and fairness.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-95-88)