
118 ◾ IP Communications and Services for NGN
1. Receivers know the amount of bandwidth or capacity they need or can han-
dle for a particular service and therefore should reserve them for themselves.
2. e burden of joining and leaving the multicast process is left to the joining
end-point and the source need not worry about it.
3. Optimizing for path and capacity is enhanced in the routers.
RSVP Design Philosophy
e role of the RSVP is to deliver QoS requests to routers or switches along the
chosen path, and the path can be set up using either routers or ATM. e RSVP is
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Figure 6.7 Many-to-many ...