Adaptive broadband extension of Web systems

We propose an extension to enable applications that can take full advantage of ATM SVC services. The proposed extension, the adaptive broadband extension (ABE), has the following advantages: (1) systems can appropriately invoke VC establishment taking into account the application requirements recognized at the application layer, e.g., file size and video bit-rate; (2) information providers can upgrade their systems with the proposed extension while preserving connectivity with existing WWW clients; (3) service quality, such as transfer speed and jitter are improved without the need to modify old muitimedia/hypermedia scripts, e.g., HTML. We are now planning to implement ABE-Web systems on a wide ATM SVC network. Security enhancement is another issue to be pursued.