Multimedia Service Configuration and Reservation in Heterogeneous Environments

Widely deployed multimedia services are expected to accommodate clients in a highly heterogeneous environment. Clients of a multimedia service may vary greatly in processing and communication capabilities. In addition, due to workload, location, and service time differences, the availability of end-to-end resources between a client and a server may also vary. Current solutions tend to focus on either the qualitative heterogeneity (in client and resource types) or the quantitative heterogeneity (in resource availability) problem. In this paper, we present a framework for dynamic end-to-end multimedia service configuration and reservation - an integrated solution to both aspects of the heterogeneity problem. Service configuration is responsible for choosing appropriate service components to compose a customized service delivery to each client; while service reservation is responsible for reserving the end-to-end resources in a coordinated manner, and providing the best possible quality ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ICDCS
• Authors: Dongyan Xu, Duangdao Wichadakul, Klara Nahrstedt
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, End-to-end Resources, ICDCS 2000, Multimedia Service, Service Configuration