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XTP over AAL 5 for multimedia applications

XTP SUR ĽAAL 5 POUR DES APPLICATIONS MULTIMÉDIAS

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The emerging of high-speed networks provides the infrastructure for handling a wide set of new applications, covering distributed multimedia cooperative features. The new quality of service provided by these networks as well as the various requirements of these applications raises new architectural and protocol issues and trends to cope with this paradigm. The transport layer is one point of interest because it is the one between processing and communication. Also, aal type 5 is the most popular atm adaptation layer today and is available in all atm products. In this paper, we briefly overview the xtp and aal 5 key characteristics, then analyse how these two protocols can work together in order to provide the required services to the user’s applications.

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Ľémergence des réseaux à hauts débits fournit ľinfrastructure nécessaire au support ďun large éventail ďapplications nouvelles, comprenant les applications multimédias distribuées coopératives. La qualité de service offerte par ces réseaux ainsi que la diversité des contraintes liées à ces applications soulèvent de nouveaux problèmes, tant ďun point de vue architectural que protocolaire. La couche transport constitue ľun des points-clé puisque se situant à la charnière du traitement de ľinformation et du transfert de ľinformation. D’un autre côté, ľaal 5 est aujourďhui la couche ďadaptation à atm la plus populaire et figure dans tous les produits atm disponibles. Cet article présente brièvement les principales caractéristiques de xtp et de ľaal 5, avant ďanalyser la manière selon laquelle ces deux protocoles peuvent interfonctionner afin de fournir les services demandés par les applications.

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    Kim-Loan Thai & Serge FDida

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This work has been supported by CNET-France Télécom under Grant 92 1B 178 as part of the cnet-cnrs Cesame project on the design of high-speed multimedia cooperative systems.

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Thai, KL., FDida, S. XTP over AAL 5 for multimedia applications. Ann. Télécommun. 50, 839–847 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03005241

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