End-to-end QoS architecture for continuous media services

In order to realize multimedia applications such as VOD (Video-on-Demand) over highspeed networks, suitable QoS (Quality of Service) of the continuous media such as audio and video have to be guaranteed in accordance with users´ requirements, available computing and network resources during the service session. In this paper, we introduce the Media Coordinate System which provides end-to-end QoS guarantee and negotiation functions consistently from the application through network layers. Within these QoS control functions we introduce a packet rate control method to reduce the packet loss, and a frame rate control method to maintain the frame rate at a constant under the dynamic load conditions. We implemented the media coordinate system as a prototyped Video-on-Demand system and evaluated the performance of these control functions. Through these performance evaluations, we could justify the usefulness of our suggested media coordinate system