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Multimedia Communications and Networking
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Multimedia Communications and Networking

by Mario Marques da Silva
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
506 pages
15h 9m
English
CRC Press
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TRANSPORT LAYER

The transport layer of the transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) protocol stack is an end-to-end layer that aims to provide, as much as possible, the required quality-of-service (QoS) to the application layer, at the lowest cost. To assure this functionality, the transport layer aims to achieve a trade-off between the QoS parameters requested by the application layer and the QoS available at the network layer (which is a function of the instantaneous traffic).

The QoS parameters dealt with and negotiated by the transport layer includes the following:

•    Requested bit rate in each direction

•    Bit error rate

•    Maximum end-to-end delay

•    Maximum end-to-end jitter

•    Priority rules

•    Probability ...

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ISBN: 9781439874851