Quality of Service in Multimedia Digital Libraries

There is currently considerable interest in developing multimedia digital libraries. However, it has become clear that existing architectures for management systems do not support the particular requirements of continuous media types. This is particularly the case in the important area of quality of service support. In this correspondence, we discuss quality of service issues within digital libraries and present a reference architecture able to support some quality aspects.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: SIGMOD
• Authors: Elisa Bertino, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Mohand-Said Hacid
• Keywords: Continuous Media Types, Database, Multimedia Digital Libraries, Quality Aspects, SIGMOD 2001