Adaptive Resource Management for Multimedia Applications

z Abstract AQUA is an integrated resource management architecture for an end-system that can deliver desired QOS to multimedia applications. The proposed architecture (called AQUA for Adaptive End-system Quality of Service Architecture) includes a common framework for managing resources such as CPU, network interface, memory, and bus bandwidth. Contributions of AQUA include an adaptation framework, QOS speciication, resource managers, and an application-level QOS manager that performs application-based graceful adaptation when resource requirements change or the demand for resources exceeds available capacity.