Dynamic scheduling of multi-media streams in home automation systems

A new trend in home automation is to integrate audio en video applications. However in current domotics systems, these are usually conFigured statically. We implemented a home automation tool that dynamically (re)schedules bandwidth for different types of multimedia streams with different constraints toward latency and quality. The dynamic scheduling problem was implemented using distributed agents negotiating for bandwidth using the contract-net negotation protocol. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4 [Information Systems Applications]: Miscellaneous; I.2 [Computing Methodologies]: Artificial Intelligence-distributed A.I. Keywords Distributed Scheduling, Negotiation, Audio/Video over IP

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Koen Vangheluwe, Wouter Souffriau, Katja Verbeeck, Patrick De Causmaecker
• Keywords: ATAL 2008, Current Domotics Systems, En Video Applications, Home Automation, Intelligent Agents