Media Scaling for Audiovisual Communication with the Heidelberg Transport System

Luca Delgrossi, Christian Halstrick, Dietmar Hehmann, Ralf Guido Herrtwìch, Oliver Krone, Jochen Sandvoss and Carsten Vogt,     IBM European Networking Center, Vangerowstr. 18, D-6900 Heidelberg, Germany

Abstract

HeiTS, the Heidelberg Transport System, is a multimedia communication system for real-time delivery of digital audio and video. HeiTS operates on top of guaranteed-performance networks that apply resource reservation techniques. To make HeiTS also work with networks for which no reservation scheme can be realized (for example, Ethernet or existing internetworks), we implement an extension to HeiTS which performs media scaling at the transport level: ...

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