A Control-Based Middleware Framework for Quality-of-Service Adaptations

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1632-1650

  Li, Baochun ^a,b,c   Nahrstedt, Klara ^a,d,e  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Application aware quality of service (QoS); Middleware

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001263652     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.790486     Document Type: Article

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