Traditionally, research on routing and wavelength assignment over wavelength-routed WDM
networks is concerned with immediate reservation (IR) demands. An IR demand typically …

In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a method for routing media comprising
receiving a request for media and determining a program in which the requested media is …

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This paper describes a reservation protocol to provide real-time services to mobile users in
an Integrated Services Packet Network. Mobility of hosts has significant impact on the quality …

Resource management offers Quality-of-Service reliability for time-critical continuous-media
applications. Currently, existing resource management systems in the Internet and ATM …

Advance reservation is a useful network service that can not only provide guaranteed
services for real-time applications but also allow networks to better plan their resource …

Variable bit-rate (VBR) compressed video traffic is expected to be a significant component of
the traffic mix in integrated services networks. This traffic is hard to manage because it has …

Compressed video traffic is expected to be a significant component of the traffic mix in
integrated services networks. This traffic is hard to manage, since it has strict delay and loss …

The ability to reserve real-time connections in advance is essential in all distributed multi-
party applications (ie, applications involving multiple human beings) using a network that …

In order to provide an adequate quality of service to large-bandwidth calls, such as video
conference calls, service providers of integrated services networks may want to allow some …