摘要 |
<p>The present invention provides a method and apparatus for a communications system that prioritizes packets that are transmitted over a digital communication channel utilizing at least one error-correcting transmission path associated with a Quality of Service (QoS) objective. The QoS objective is used to select the appropriate transmission path (that may include forward error coding, scrambling, and interleaving) that satisfies the relevant metrics of the desired level of service quality such as packet latency, variation of the packet latency, information throughput, and packet error rate (PER). The communications system selects a transmission path that is associated with QoS objectives best matched to the QoS objectives as required by the originating application.</p> |