Network Resource Scheduling
University College London NRS was a project of the Networks Research Group in the Computer Science Department in collaboration with the High Energy Physics Group at UCL. The objective of NRS was to find a practical solution to the problem of allowing users to request network capacity allocations - “reservations” - dynamically, including the ability to make “advance reservations” for sometime in the future. The aim is to provide a control mechanism for Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees between end-sites. The management of such network reservations is highly decentralised, with direct communication between the end-sites that require the reservations.