Multimedia service delivery with guaranteed quality of service

Abstract

Multimedia services, such as videoconferencing require network and systems performance guarantees in terms of throughput, delay, jitter etc. These parameters, also known as quality of service (QoS), factors vary from user to user and application to application. Existing networking infrastructures such as the Internet do not yet support guarantees of QoS. However we can expect such support in the future. This paper presents our research in experimentation and modelling of schemes for providing multimedia services with guaranteed QoS.