Paper Title: R

SVP: A New Resource ReSerVation Protocol

Author(s):

L. Zhang, S. Deering, D. Estrin, S. Shenker, D. Zappala

Main Point(s):

RSVP is a resource reservation protocol that supports special requirements of multimedia application. It accommodates heterogeneous receivers, adapts to multicast groups, and exploits different resources for application requirements. Its modular design is mostly independent of flow specification format and network protocol. It has minimal control overhead and supports channel switching. The main idea is that it is receivers instead of senders reserve resources.

Possible Use(s):

For multimedia uses over networking.

Extensions:

(not know yet)

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