RSVP

• Resource ReServation Protocol (RSVP)

• implementation of INTSRV reservation process

• can be used to set aside resources for a specific application along a communications path

• can transfer the requests to a new path if rerouted

• simplex (one direction per reservation)

• receiver-oriented

• may make use of QoS-active links

  like ATM & MPLS
  

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