Advance Resource Reservation in High Speed Communication Networks: A Survey

Abstract

A survey of advance resource reservation techniques for guaranteed bandwidth is carried out. A classification of these techniques, on the basis of their effect on different network functions, such as routing, resource management etc, is presented. Agent-based networks, heterogeneous networks and re-negotiations in advance resource reservations have been studied along-with some applications of advance resource reservation.

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A Mathur

Abhinav Mathur received BE (Computer Science) from the Delhi Institute of Technology, Delhi (now Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology) in 1992. He has been working in the area of Telecommunication Protocol and Services since then. He is currently pursuing the research programme offered by IIT Delhi. Presently he is Vice President at Intersolutions Pvt Ltd, a startup working in Telecom Convergence. His research interests arc Quality of Service, Advance Reservation Service, Intelligent Networks, Mobile Communications, and Feature Interaction in Telecom services.

S Kar

Subrat Kar graduated with honours in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani in 1987. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1991). He has been with the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1991–1994). Presently he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His research areas are in optical communication, switching, access technologies and high speed networks.

H M Gupta

H M Gupta received BE (Electronics and Communications) from University of Roorkee (now IIT, Roorkee) MTech (UHF and Microwave Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and PhD (Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1973 where he is a professor since 1986. Prof Gupta held positions of Head of the Department, Dean (Undergraduate Studies), and Coordinator, Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management at IIT, Delhi. He held faculty positions at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, He has been an academic visitor to University of Maryland, College Park, USA; Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne Switzerland and several British Universities.

Prof Gupta's academic and professional interests are Telecommunication Systems, Computer Communication Networks, Multimedia Systems and Photonic Information Systems. He is Fellow, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineer; Fellow, Institution of Engineers (India); and Senior Member, Computer Society of India. He has been Vice-President of System Society of India, and is a founding member of Association for Security of Information Systems (ASIS).