An XML-based quality of service enabling language for the web

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 61-95

  Gu, Xiaohui ^a   Nahrstedt, Klara ^a   Yuan, Wanghong ^a   Wichadakul, Duangdao ^a   Xu, Dongyan ^b  

^a Digital Computer Laboratory   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed multimedia applications; Quality of service; Visual programming environment; XML

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036487505     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.2001.0227     Document Type: Article

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