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for a period (T) before it recovers its original reservation; and perma-
nent restoration, which occurs when the rerouted flow never recovers
its original reservation.
6.6.2 Advantages and Disadvantages
e INSIGNIA framework provides an integrated approach to QoS
provisioning by combining in-band signaling, call admission control,
and packet scheduling together. e soft-state reservation scheme
used in this framework ensures that resources are quickly released at
the time of path reconfiguration. But, this framework supports only
adaptive applications—for example, multimedia applications. Since
this framework is transparent to any MAC protocol, the fairness and
reservation scheme of the MAC protocol have a sign ...