QoS-aware resource management for distributed multimedia applications：（QoS-aware分布式多媒体应用程序的资源管理）.pdfVIP

Journal of High Speed Networks 7 (1998) 229–257 229 IOS Press QoS-aware resource management for distributed multimedia applications1 Klara Nahrstedt, Hao-hua Chu and Srinivas Narayan Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL, USA E-mail: {klara,h-chu3,srnaraya}@ Abstract. The ability of operating system and network infrastructure to provide end-to-end quality of service (QoS) guarantees in multimedia is a major acceptance factor for various distributed multimedia applications due to the temporal audio-visual and sensory information in these applications. Our constraints on the end-to-end guarantees are (1) QoS should be achieved on a general-purpose platform with a real-time extension support, and (2) QoS should be application-controllable. In order to achieve the users’ acceptance requirements and to satisfy our constraints on the multimedia systems, we need a QoS-compliant resource management which supports QoS negotiation, admission and reservation mechanisms in an integrated and accessible way. In this paper we present a new resource model and a time-variant QoS management, which are the major components of the QoS-compliant resource management. The resource model incorporates, the resource scheduler, and a new component, the resource broker, which provides negotiation, admission and reservation capabilities for sharing resources such as CPU, network or memory corresponding to requested QoS. The resource brokers are intermediary resource managers; when combined with the resource schedulers, they provide a more predictable and finer granularity control of resources to the applications during the end-to-end multimedia communication than what is available in current general-purpose networked systems. Furthermore, this paper presents the QoS-aware resource management model called QualMan,