Resource Management for Distributed Multimedia Systems

✍ Scribed by Lars Christian Wolf (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Resource Management for Distributed Multimedia Systems addresses the problems and challenges of handling several continuous- media data streams in networked multimedia environments. The work demonstrates how resource management mechanisms can be integrated into a stream handling system. The resulting system includes functions for Quality of Service (QoS) calculations, scheduling, determination of resource requirements, and methods to reduce resource requirements. The work explains the following:

• a suitable system architecture and resource management scheme that allows for the provision and enforcement of QoS guarantee,
• resource scheduling mechanisms for CPU and buffer space,
• mechanisms to measure and collect resource requirements,
• methods to extend resource management to future scenarios by allowing the reservation of resources in advance and offering sealing mechanisms.

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Resource Management for Distributed Multimedia Systems is a comprehensive view of resource management for a broad technical audience that includes computer scientists and engineers involved in developing multimedia applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
System Architecture of the Multimedia Environment....Pages 7-24
Resource Management Principles....Pages 25-38
Resource Scheduling....Pages 39-56
Determination of Resource Requirements....Pages 57-81
Reduction of Resource Requirements....Pages 83-112
Advanced Resource Management Techniques....Pages 113-126
Conclusions and Outlook....Pages 127-129
Back Matter....Pages 131-145

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Multimedia Information Systems