DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) (02/27/91)
Hi - I am working on a project that needs a domain-wide network queueing management mechanism over tcp/ip. The scenario is something like this: each host on the net is able to issue requests for some network-wide resources. The requests are prioritized, and the time the request should be granted is part of the request. When multiple requests with similar priority are requesting for the same resource at the same time, they are granted on the bases of the time these requests were queued (the one that got queued first will get his resource first). What I am wondering is whether there is already some protocol out there (somebody told me of an NQS - network queueing services protocol by sun - has anybody heard of it?) that gives me a good starting point. Any pointers to books and publications related to network queue management, network spooling, etc., will be much appreciated. thanks! bruce (please email) deadhead@cup.portal.com