A Negotiation-Based Resource Management Framework for Dynamic QOS Control Kiyokuni KAWACHIYA

To change the quality of service (QOS) of a continuous-media processing dynamically according to the system environment, a new resource management model is needed that supports resource negotiation between the application and the system by combining resource reservation and adaptation. Realization of such a model will require the solution of several problems, such as how to specify requests for mutually related multiple resources and for discrete QOS-controllable points, and how to allocate and calibrate resources to satisfy the speci cation. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a new resource management model that allows resource allocation and QOS adjustment over multiple continuous-media applications. In this model, each application can request or calibrate resources through an integrated abstraction named a \Resource-Ticket."