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This paper describes a method for providing QoS support to legacy (non-QoS aware) network applications. This facility allows such applications to request desired QoS levels from QoS supporting networks and thus helps to increase their lifespan and performance levels. We use mobile-agent components called Netlets for this purpose. Netlets are nomadic components that roam in a network providing predefined network services. The solution we propose is not restricted to any particular QoS model or signalling protocol, and thus can readily accommodate emerging networking standards. This approach to QoS support, by decoupling applications from the specifics of network QoS support, which may differ among networks, or evolve over time, should greatly facilitate the introduction of new real-time services.
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Dharmalingam, K., Collier, M. (2002). Transparent QoS Support of Network Applications Using Netlets. In: Karmouch, A., Magedanz, T., Delgado, J. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2521. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36086-7_19
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