Paper Info
Title
An agent based adaptive bandwidth allocation scheme for multimedia applications
Abstract
Bandwidth allocation for multimedia applications in case of network congestion and failure poses technical challenges due to bursty and delay sensitive nature of the applications. The growth of multimedia services on Internet and the development of agent technology have made us to investigate new techniques for resolving the bandwidth issues in multimedia communications. Agent technology is emerging as a flexible promising solution for network resource management and QoS (Quality of Service) control in a distributed environment. In this paper, we propose an adaptive bandwidth allocation scheme for multimedia applications by deploying the static and mobile agents. It is a run-time allocation scheme that functions at the network nodes. This technique adaptively finds an alternate patchup route for every congested/failed link and reallocates the bandwidth for the affected multimedia applications. The designed method has been tested (analytical and simulation) with various network sizes and conditions. The results are presented to assess the performance and effectiveness of the approach. This work also demonstrates some of the benefits of the agent based schemes in providing flexibility, adaptability, software reusability, and maintainability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1016/j.jss.2003.09.031
Journal of Systems and Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
network congestion,network resource management,multimedia applications,agent technology,adaptive bandwidth allocation scheme,multimedia service,multimedia communication,multimedia application,various network size,bandwidth allocation,alternate routing,mobile agents,affected multimedia application,network node,time allocation,distributed environment,resource manager,quality of service,design method,mobile agent
Distributed Computing Environment,Bandwidth allocation,Computer science,Computer network,Node (networking),Quality of service,Real-time computing,Network congestion,Multi-frequency network,Distributed computing,Bandwidth (signal processing),Dynamic bandwidth allocation,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
75
3
The Journal of Systems & Software
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.75
27
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. S. Manvi121618.75
P. Venkataram21037.52