A Flexible Protocol Architecture for Multimedia Communication in ATM-Based Networks

* In Proceedings of 18th Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, ON, Canada, June 1996. Abstract: Emerging applications are characterized by highly different service requirements. Most importantly, they require specialized end-to-end quality of service and multicast support from the communication system. The BERKOM-II projects comprise application support as well as an enhanced communication system with multicast and QoS support. In the first section of this paper, the BERKOM-II projects are shortly introduced, and the Multimedia Transport System (MMT) is described in some detail. Section 2 gives an overview over QoS support and group communication of the XTP-Lite protocol. Finally, section 3 describes the implementation architecture.