A distributed admission control model for QoS assurance in large-scale media delivery systems

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1143-1153

  Xia, Zhonghang ^a   Hao, Wei ^b   Yen, I Ling ^b   Li, Peng ^b  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Disk bandwidth; Distributed admission control; Game theory; Quality of service

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; GAME THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

DISK BANDWIDTH; DISTRIBUTED ADMISSION CONTROL MODEL; LARGE-SCALE MEDIA DELIVERY SYSTEMS;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 30344476099     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2005.141     Document Type: Article

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