RESOURCE RESERVATION IN NETWORK ROUTING

摘要

The present invention relates to network routing and admission control, especially for applications requiring guaranteed quality of service over the Internet. The present invention provides a method of establishing a guaranteed quality of service link over a packet switched network between a source and a destination, the method comprising: determining whether packet traffic from a network node associated with the source to a network node associated with the destination exceeds a predetermined level; signalling an intermediate network node to receive predetermined packets from said source node and forward these to said destination node; forwarding said packets to the intermediate node; the intermediate node receiving said packets and forwarding these to said destination node.