WWW browser and server with guaranteed QoS support over native ATM API

In this paper, we present WWW browser and server that can utilize guaranteed QoS over ATM network using native ATM API. Native ATM API is the API for native ATM services, i.e., ATM-specific services. It can provide native ATM's benefits directly to its applications, without producing such drawbacks as stack overhead and functional limitations which can be found in IP over ATM, LAN emulation over ATM, and Multiprotocol over ATM mechanisms. We explain these advantages, standardization works and development trend of native ATM API. And then we describe our system architecture and environment for Web browsing with guaranteed QoS support, operation procedure of HTTP over ATM API, and the ways to specify QoS and traffic characteristics for our WWW system.