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

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

521

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2000. ICME 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6536-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2000.869653

Filename

869653