A model of adaptive QoS management platform based on cooperation of layered multi-agents

Author

Ogino, Nagao ; Kosuga, Masakatsu ; Yamazaki, Tatsuya ; Matsuda, Jun

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Lab., Minist. of Posts & Telecommun., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

406

Abstract

It is important for distributed multimedia applications to assure end-to-end QoS of media streams. Moreover, the end-to-end QoS needs to be managed adaptively according to fluctuation of system states and variation of user requests. In this paper, a model of adaptive QoS management platform for distributed multimedia applications is proposed. In this model, the adaptive QoS management is achieved by direct and indirect cooperation of layered multi-agents. By using the layered multi-agents system, the proposed QoS management platform can flexibly adapt to user´s QoS requirements and large variation of system states, and can quickly adapt to small fluctuation of system states, simultaneously

Keywords

adaptive systems; distributed processing; multimedia communication; quality of service; telecommunication network management; adaptive QoS management platform; distributed multimedia applications; end-to-end QoS; layered multi-agents cooperation; media streams; system states fluctuation; user requests variation; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Fluctuations; IP networks; Multiagent systems; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Streaming media; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1999. GLOBECOM '99

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeireo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5796-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1999.831672

Filename

831672