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Dynamic end-to-end QoS management middleware for distributed multimedia systems

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Denise J. Ecklund,

Thomas Plagemann,

Earl F. Ecklund, Jr.Authors Info & Claims

Multimedia Systems, Volume 8, Issue 5

Pages 431 - 442

Published: 01 December 2002 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we present a separable, reusable middleware solution that provides coordinated, end-to-end QoS management over any type of service component, and can use existing (legacy) QoS management solutions (by using wrappers) in a distributed multimedia system. Our middleware solution incorporates strategic and tactical QoS managers, and supports protocols and messages between tactical managers and managed application components, and between QoS managers in the management hierarchy. Strategic QoS managers take a global view of QoS provided by a set of application components within the manager's policy domain. Tactical QoS managers provide local control over application components. We introduce the concept of QoS policy domains to scope the authority of a strategic QoS manager. We describe how the management hierarchy is dynamically configured and reconfigured based on runtime needs of the application.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1943552.1943564

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Multimedia Systems Volume 8, Issue 5

December 2002

104 pages

ISSN:0942-4962

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Seiler DJuhnke EEwerth RGrauer MFreisleben BBegen AMayer-Patel K(2011)Efficient data transmission between multimedia web services via aspect-oriented programmingProceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Multimedia systems10.1145/1943552.1943564(93-104)Online publication date: 23-Feb-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1943552.1943564

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