Title :
Design space exploration for providing QoS within the HARMONY framework
Author :
Lele, A.M. ; Nandy, S.K. ; Epema, D.H.J.
Author_Institution :
Supercomput. Educ. & Res. Centre, Indian Inst. of Sci., Bangalore, India
Abstract :
The HARMONY architecture (A.M. Lele and S.K. Nandy, 1999) provides mechanisms for management of network and compute resources in a mobile computing environment. In HARMONY, network resources are reserved based on the Entropy Model (A.M. Lele and S.K. Nandy, 1998), and compute guarantees are provided by off-loading tasks from the mobile units to compute servers in the backbone network. A load balancing scheme redistributes loads across all compute servers so that these are equally loaded. The paper carries out a design space exploration of the HARMONY architecture to determine parameter bounds within which quality of service can be provided
Keywords :
computer network management; mobile computing; multimedia systems; quality of service; resource allocation; Entropy Model; HARMONY architecture; HARMONY framework; QoS; backbone network; compute resource management; compute servers; design space exploration; load balancing scheme; mobile computing environment; mobile units; network resources; parameter bounds; quality of service; Computer architecture; Computer network management; Computer networks; Entropy; Environmental management; Mobile computing; Network servers; Quality of service; Resource management; Space exploration;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo, 2000. ICME 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6536-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2000.869653
