
RSVP: Resource Reservation Protocol ◾ 133
In making the reservations, hosts are not concerned with which one of them H1
might choose to listen to. H1 also does not know if all the hosts might choose to
send messages at the same time. For example, at router R3, if H3 and H4 transmit
simultaneously, the reserved bandwidth at link L7 will be inadequate. e router in
such circumstances might choose to interleave their packets before sending them.
Additional reservation requests from H2, H3, H4, and H5 in a multicast situ-
ation are handled in the same form as in this example. A complete router path in
that case is bi-directional with b bandwidt