In this paper, we consider the problem of resource reservation for networks. Current approaches for resource reservation in Integrated Service Networks adopt an all-or-nothing approach, where partially acquired resources must be released if resources are not available at all routers on the chosen path. Furthermore, under high load, endsystems must retry requests repeatedly leading to inefficien...

While it is obvious that transmission without route reservation is suitable for a wired data network such as Internet, it is not clear whether this is true in the case of ad hoc wireless networks. To the best of our knowledge, this has not been studied in the literature. In this paper, we investigate the performance of two switching paradigms: reservation-based (RB) and non-reservation based (N...