Visual QoS programming environment for ubiquitous multimedia services

Xiaohui Gu, Duangdao Wichadakul, Klara Narhstedt

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Abstract

The provision of distributed multimedia services is becoming mobile and ubiquitous. Different multimedia services require application-specific Quality of Service (QoS). In this paper, we present QoSTalk, a unified component-based programming environment that allows application developers to specify different application-specific QoS requirements easily. In QoSTalk, we adopt a hierarchical approach to model application configuration graphs for different distributed multimedia services. We design and implement the XML-based Hierarchical QoS Markup Language, called HQML, to describe the hierarchical configuration graph as well as other application-specific QoS requirements and policies. QoSTalk promotes the separation of concerns in developing QoS-aware ubiquitous multimedia applications and thus enables easy programming of QoS-aware applications, running on top of a unified QoS-aware middleware framework. We have prototyped the QoSTalk in Java and CORBA. Our case studies with several multimedia applications show that QoSTalk effectively fills the gap for application developers between the very general facilities provided by the QoS-aware middleware and different kinds of distributed multimedia applications.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages575-578
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)0769511988
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001
Event2001 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2001 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: Aug 22 2001Aug 25 2001

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
ISSN (Print)1945-7871
ISSN (Electronic)1945-788X

Other

Other2001 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2001
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period8/22/018/25/01

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications

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