A novel monitoring architecture for media services adaptation based on network QoS to perceived QoS mapping

Signal, Image and Video Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 307-320

  Sidibé, Mamadou ^a   Koumaras, Harilaos ^b   Kofler, Ingo ^c   Mehaoua, Ahmed ^a,d   Kourtis, Anastasios ^b   Timmerer, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERSAILLES   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

End to end monitoring; Integrated management; NQoS PQoS; Perceived quality monitoring; Service adaptation; SLA SLS

Indexed keywords

END-TO-END MONITORING; INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT; NQOS/PQOS; PERCEIVED QUALITY MONITORING; SERVICE ADAPTATION; SLA/SLS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; NETWORK LAYERS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

MONITORING;

EID: 67349096936     PISSN: 18631703     EISSN: 18631711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11760-008-0083-2     Document Type: Article

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