Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP)

Overview

Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP) is an Ethernet enhancement to add admission control

Messages

The SRP protocol works as follows:

  1. Advertise a stream from a talker
  2. Register the paths along data flow
  3. Calculate worst-case latency
  4. Create an AVB domain
  5. Reserve the bandwidth for the stream

Messages:

  • reservation request

Standards

IEEE 802.1Qat

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