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Properly capturing and handing administrative requirements for Quality of Service (QoS) management is a challenging, infrequently studied, problem. In this paper, we formalize administrative requirements as administrative policies, and use policy-based management techniques for enforcing them. Doing so adds a great deal of flexibility and power to QoS management. We discuss our general policy-based approach to QoS management, provide several examples of administrative policies, and present highlights from the use of a prototype policy-based QoS management system that uses administrative policies in a variety of experiments with a distributed multimedia application.
An extended version of this paper can be found as Technical Report #596, Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario.
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Katchabaw, M., Lutfiyya, H., Bauer, M. (2003). Administrative Policies to Regulate Quality of Service Management in Distributed Multimedia Applications. In: Marshall, A., Agoulmine, N. (eds) Management of Multimedia Networks and Services. MMNS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2839. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39404-4_26
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