QoS negotiation and resource reservation for distributed multimedia applications

Author

Rothermel, Kurt ; Dermler, Gabriel ; Fiederer, Walter

Author_Institution

Inst. of Parallel & Distrib. High-Performance Syst., Stuttgart Univ., Germany

fYear

1997

fDate

3-6 Jun 1997

Firstpage

319

Lastpage

326

Abstract

Distributed multimedia applications require negotiation of quality of service (QoS) and resource reservation for application components and communication links. QoS negotiation is a balancing process between the QoS specified by a client, the resource capabilities of the distributed system and the functional capabilities of the distributed application. It requires application level QoS descriptions and an end-to-end view spanning the distributed application. XNRP, introduced in the paper, is a protocol meeting these requirements. XNRP performs negotiation based on client specified QoS value ranges and is independent of application level QoS semantics. It allows QoS negotiation and resource reservation in three phases and supports arbitrarily interconnected flowgraphs of application components. Performance analysis of the XNRP implementation shows its applicability to complex settings

Keywords

multimedia systems; protocols; resource allocation; software performance evaluation; telecommunication links; QoS negotiation; XNRP protocol; application components; application level QoS descriptions; arbitrarily interconnected flowgraphs; client; communication links; complex settings; distributed multimedia applications; end-to-end view; functional capabilities; performance analysis; resource reservation; Delay; Filters; Flow graphs; Multimedia systems; Performance analysis; Quality of service; Real time systems; Streaming media; Topology; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems '97. Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5530-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1997.609619

Filename

609619