Title :
Kalinahia: Considering quality of service to design and execute distributed multimedia applications
Author :
Laplace, Sophie ; Dalmau, Marc ; Roose, Philippe
Author_Institution :
LIUPPA, Univ. de Pau et des Pays de l´´Adour, Pau
Abstract :
One of the current challenges of Information Systems is to ensure semi-structured data transmission, such as multimedia data, in a distributed and pervasive environment. Information Sytems must then guarantee users a quality of service ensuring data accessibility whatever the hardware and network conditions may be. They must also guarantee information coherence and particularly intelligibility that imposes a personalization of the service. Within this framework, we propose a design method based on original models of multimedia applications and quality of service. We also define a supervision platform Kalinahia using a user centered heuristic allowing us to define at any moment which configuration of software components constitutes the best answers to users´ wishes in terms of service.
Keywords :
information systems; multimedia communication; quality of service; distributed multimedia applications; information systems; multimedia data; quality of service; semi-structured data transmission; supervision platform Kalinahia; Application software; Context; Hardware; Information systems; Internet; Middleware; Multimedia computing; Multimedia systems; Quality of service; Resource management; adaptation; components; design; distributed application; multimedia; quality of service; reconfiguration;
Conference_Titel :
Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2008. NOMS 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Salvador, Bahia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2065-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1542-1201
DOI :
10.1109/NOMS.2008.4575255