BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: UCB//ERL-94-53
ENTRY:: May 16, 1994
TITLE:: Experiments with the Tenet Real-Time Protocol
        Suite on the Sequoia 2000 Wide Area Network 
AUTHOR:: Banjerea, Anindo
AUTHOR:: Knightly, Edward W. 
AUTHOR:: Templin, Fred L. 
AUTHOR:: Zhang, Hui 
PAGES:: 17
ABSTRACT:: Emerging distributed multimedia applications have
stringent performance requirements in terms of bandwidth, 
delay, delay-jitter, and loss rate. The Tenet real-time
protocol suite provides the services and mechanisms for
delivering such performance guarantees, even during periods
of high network load and congestion. The protocols achieve
this by using resource management, connection admission
control, and appropriate packet service disciplines inside the
network. The Sequoia 2000 network employs the Tenet Protocol 
Suite at each of its hosts and routers making it one of the 
first wide area packet-switched networks to provide end-to-end
per-connection performance guarantees. This paper presents 
experiments of the Tenet protocols on the Sequoia 2000 network
including measurments of the performance of the protocols, the
service received by real multimedia applications using the 
protocols, and comparisons with the service received by 
applications that use the Internet protocols (UDP/IP). We
conclude that the Tenet protocols successfully protect the
real-time channels from other traffic in the network, including
other real-time channels, and continue to meet the performance
guarantees, even when the network is highly loaded. 
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END:: UCB//ERL-94-53