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A lot of attention has been given to network quality of service and efforts to make layers on top of the network also QoS-aware increase noticeably. This paper explores QoS-aware service provisioning at a level close to end-user’s perception. It shows how end-user oriented QoS requirements have been elaborated in a high level design onto QoS support of a distributed service platform and how realized QoS can be monitored. A GameHall has been used as the application context for which validation of the explored and applied concepts and models for QoS specification and monitoring have been exercised.
This work has been sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs within the project FRIENDS.
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Widya, I., Stap, R.E., Teunissen, L.J., Hopman, B.F. (2001). On the End-User QoS-Awareness of a Distributed Service Environment. In: van Sinderen, M.J., Nieuwenhuis, L.J.M. (eds) Protocols for Multimedia Systems. PROMS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2213. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45481-0_18
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