| Public demand for audio-video AV digital applications started in the beginning of 90s. It also started with the wide use of AV compression algorithms like MPEG, and improved storage and processing speed capacity of computer equipments. Unfortunately, AV protocols at that time, like SCSI and IDE, could not provide services required by new AV applications. That is one reason why Apple proposed a new protocol: Firewire that also became IEEE 1394.;The purpose of this thesis is to find out and resolve different cases of Firewire-Ethernet networks interconnection. To achieve this goal, interconnection constraints have been pointed out. Some researchers have proposed methods to resolve these constraints based on services provided by networks protocols. A study about Firewire and Ethernet has shown that Ethernet does not provide services like reservation. In fact, Ethernet higher layers protocols, like TCP, UDP, EP should be supported by any interconnection equipment. This study revealed also 2 cases of interconnection. The first one is based on IPv4 datagrams transport, and the second one relates to AV data transport. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)... |
