Multimedia Networking - Coordination of Multimedia Services in Next Generation Mobile Networks

ISBN-13: 9783836451475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 296 str.

Teodora Guenkova-Luy

Opis

The realization of ubiquitous access to Internet services in the next generationof mobile networks (NGN) needs to address the increasingly importantchallenges of networks cross-bridging, mobility and Quality of Service (QoS)for different kinds of multimedia services. Current mechanisms for providingQoS cover predominantly single facets of the global QoS management.However, QoS is a system aspect that crosses all components and layers of adistributed multimedia system. Consequently, the control mechanisms forservice management turn to be increasingly complex with the growingsystem heterogeneity. Significant parts of this work are devoted to the optimisationof the control signalling for distributed multimedia services. Themajor topic of this work is the specification and the implementation of theEnd-to-End Negotiation Protocol (E2ENP). The protocol represents a novelapproach to manage multimedia services in mobile and heterogeneousnetworks, different from the currently existing static service-coordinationmethods. This book is the publication of the doctor thesis of T. Guenkova-Luyand it addresses the topics of optimization of the multimedia-managementsystems in NGN.