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QoS for Multimedia - What’s Going to Make It Pay?

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Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (IDMS 2001)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 2158))

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Delivering the form of QoS we see in the form of Service Level Agreements is a big deal for ISPs; however, this is a long way from the traditional multimedia view of per application instance QoS. Likewise many OS and middleware platforms take one of the two views on QoS: machines are getting faster so who cares, or, we have a real time scheduling class. Are we ever going to drive QoS into the mainstream?

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McAuley, D. (2001). QoS for Multimedia - What’s Going to Make It Pay?. In: Shepherd, D., Finney, J., Mathy, L., Race, N. (eds) Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems. IDMS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2158. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44763-6_1

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