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QoS Management Middleware: A Separable, Reusable Solution

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Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (IDMS 2001)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 2158))

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Research in the area of end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) has produced important results over the last years. However, most solutions are tailored for specific environments, assume layered system architectures, or integrate QoS management within the respective service components, such that the QoS management functionality is not easily reusable. Furthermore, proprietary QoS solutions are not interoperable and QoS management for logical objects is not supported. In this paper, we present a separable and reusable QoS management service for end-to-end QoS in a distributed environment. This QoS middleware extends the classical feedback controller with QoS-aware agents. We describe the resulting seven-agent QoS manager, a generic management protocol, and define interfaces between the agents, platform services, and QoS-aware application components. Wrappers can be used to interface the QoS middleware with all types of legacy distributed service components, both QoS-aware and QoS-unaware.

At the time of this work these authors were senior guest researchers at UniK - Center for Technology at Kjeller, University of Oslo.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway

    Denise Ecklund, Vera Goebel, Thomas Plagemann, Earl F. Ecklund Jr. & Carsten Griwodz

  2. SINTEF Telecom and Informatics, Oslo, Norway

    Jan Øyvind Aagedal & Arne-Jorgen Berre

  3. UniK - Center for Technology at Kjeller, University of Oslo, Norway

    Ketil Lund

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Ecklund, D. et al. (2001). QoS Management Middleware: A Separable, Reusable Solution. In: Shepherd, D., Finney, J., Mathy, L., Race, N. (eds) Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems. IDMS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2158. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44763-6_14

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