Download or read book Guaranteed Performance Communication in High Speed Networks written by Dinesh Chandra Verma and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contract can be sub-divided into three major components, a conventional component that describes the obligations of the network to provide a conventional connection oriented service not involving any performance guarantees, a traffic component that describes the obligations of the application to the network, and a performance component which describes the obligations of the network to the application. Within each of the three components of the contract, four problems need to be addressed. We need to define the terms of the contract, which would be signed by the application and the network.