For applications relying on the transfer of multimedia, and in particular continuous media, it
is essential that quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed system-wide, including end-systems …

The advantage of degrading the QoS of a multimedia session is that it reduces the network
bandwidth required for distributed multimedia applications, increasing the number of users …

HeiTS, the Heidelberg Transport System, is a multimedia communication system for real-
time delivery of digital audio and video. HeiTS operates on top of guaranteed-performance …

We describe the design of an application platform able to run distributed real-time and
multimedia applications alongside conventional UNIX programs. The platform is embedded …

This paper presents quality of service (QoS) metrics for continuity and synchronization
specifications in continuous media (CM). Proposed metrics specify continuity and …

This paper presents dynamic QOS control schemes based on real-time threads. A real-time
thread is based on an explicit declaration of timing attributes, such as start time, deadline …

The bandwidth limitations of multimedia systems force trade-offs between presentation-data
fidelity and real-time performance. For example, digital video is commonly encoded with …

Multimedia data have specific temporal presentation requirements. For example in video
conferencing applications the voice and images of the participants must be delivered and …

Issues related to guaranteeing synchronous messages with arbitrary deadline constraints in
a fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) network are addressed. It is shown that several …

A QOS control is one of the most important factors in continuous media applications. The
QOS levels of the applications should be maintained even if several continuous media …