Network traffic management using embedded network processor for enhancing quality of service of multimedia applications

Abstract

Internet traffic has increased in recent times due to the explosive newlinegrowth of multimedia applications such as Video on demand Video newlineTelephony Video streaming and e learning applications that require newlineguaranteed Quality of Service in terms of throughput bandwidth newlinedelay jitter and loss rate Hence addressing the QoS issues of these newlinebandwidth intensive delay sensitive and loss tolerant multimedia newlineapplications becomes extremely essential The effective handling of this newlinetremendous amount of multimedia traffic to achieve the QoS has stressed the newlineperformance of the intermediate routers These routers which empower the newlineInternet have been upgraded using embedded Network Processors NP newlinehaving a high performance parallel processing architecture that support newlinepacket processing at wire speed newline newline