Pricing the quality of differentiated services for media-oriented real-time applications: A multi-attribute negotiation approach

Computer Networks

Volumn 52, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 3373-3391

  Comuzzi, Marco ^a   Francalanci, Chiara ^a   Giacomazzi, Paolo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differentiated service; Multimedia applications; Negotiation; Real time applications

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPLICATIONS; BANDWIDTH; BROADCASTING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ONLINE CONFERENCING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUALITY CONTROL; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; VIDEO CONFERENCING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AUDIO ON DEMANDS; BROADCAST TV; DIFFERENTIATED SERVICE; DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES; DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES NETWORKS; MAXIMUM PROBABILITIES; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; NEGOTIATION; NETWORK RESOURCES; NEW ALGORITHMS; ONLINE GAMINGS; PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES; QUALITY FUNCTIONS; QUALITY OF SERVICE PARAMETERS; REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS; SERVICE CLASSES; STREAMING VIDEOS; TRAFFIC FLOWS; TRAFFIC PROFILES; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 55649093316     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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