C_MACSE: A Novel ACSE Protocol for Hard Real-time Multimedia Communications*

* This paper combines and extends research work that appeared in preliminary form in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Military Communications, Mc Lean, Virginia, USA, October 1996, Eds. IEEE, pp. 755-759 and in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Sept.-Oct. 1996, Eds. IEEE, pp. 487-491. Part of this work was done in RACE-Project R1086 TELEMED. Summary A connection establishment protocol for multimedia communication residing at the OSI application layer is presented. The new protocol (C_MACSE) adopts a comprehensive approach for Quality of Service (QoS), as it incorporates resource management strategies for the CPU scheduling and the virtual memory of a multimedia system. The C_MACSE protocol provides services for the negotiation, renegotiation and monitoring of the comprehensive QoS.