A control-based middleware framework for quality-of-service adaptations.

In heterogeneous environments with performance variations present, multiple applications compete for and share a limited amount of system resources and suffer from variations in resource availability. These complex applications are desired to adapt themselves and to adjust their resource demands dyn...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 17, 9 (1999).
Main Author:	Baochun Li
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	QoS adaptation decisions. Adaptation mechanisms. Application-specific requirements. Control-based middleware framework. Critical application quality parameters. Distributed multimedia application. Distributed visual tracking. Dynamic control. Fairness. Functionalities. Fuzzy control model. Heterogeneous environments. Internal parameters. Middleware control framework. Performance variation. Quality-of-service adaptations. Resource availability. System resources. System-wide properties. Task control model.