HeiRAT - Quality-of-Service Management for Distributed Multimedia Systems
Key: VWHW98-1
Author: Carsten Vogt, Lars Wolf, Ralf Guido Herrtwich, Hartmut Wittig
Date: May 1998
Kind: @article
Abstract: Multimedia systems must be able to support a certain quality of servic e (QoS) to satisfy the stringent real-time performance requirements of their app lications. HeiRAT, the Heidelberg Resource Administration Technique, is a compre hensive QoS management system that was designed and implemented in connection wi th a distributed multimedia platform for networked PCs and workstations. HeiRAT includes techniques for QoS negotiation, QoS calculation, resource reservation, and resource scheduling for local and network resources.

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