High-Performance Networks for Multimedia Applications
Contributors: Andre Danthine (Editor); Otto Spaniol (Editor); Wolfgang Effelsberg (Editor); Domenico Ferrari (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 31, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780792382744
Subjects: Computer Communications & Networking; Interactive & Multimedia; Computer Networks; Multi-Media Hardware & Software; Multimedia systems; Computers; Computers - Communications / Networking; Information Technology; Computer Books: General; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Networking - General; Computers / Networking / General; Asynchronous transfer mode
First sentence: Current WWW servers serve requests using a best-effort method which is not sufficient when the individual connections have QoS requirements and when the number of connections increases.