A Network Resource Management Framework for Multimedia Applications Distributed in Heterogeneous Home Networks

In this paper we present a network resource management framework, based on an home network model, that ensures the QoS (Quality of Service) of distributed multimedia applications. The latter are deployed, on the user demand, on the heterogeneous devices and the heterogeneous communication links of the home network. The resource management framework contains dedicated components to estimate the required network bandwidth of a specific multimedia application, the currently available network bandwidth and to reserve the required network bandwidth. This paper evaluates the resource management framework on a real home network with Wifi links that support 802.11e network QoS standard and with Wifi links that do not.