J. Wolf, B. E. Wolfinger
Efficient Resource Management for Distributed Applications with Real-Time Requirements in Broadcast Networks
8th CaberNet Radicals Workshop, 2003.
Abstract
Distributed applications are often established in local,
e.g. wireless, networks. An important means
to guarantee an acceptable quality of service in networks
with real-time communication requirements is
the reservation of resources at connection setup time.
However, such reserved resources, e.g. transmission
bandwidth, may be unused as a consequence of the
variations in the actual resource demands. Indeed, in
many, mainly wireless, networks these resources are
quite limited. Therefore, we propose a more efficient
resource utilization which is possible if communicating
stations or end-users dynamically hand over some
of the free resources temporarily to the other communication
partners, e.g. of a "broadcast network".
This paper summarizes some of our main results as
achieved up to now. We focus on our recent work
in progress as well as on future prospects of such a
demand-based sharing of resources: on the one hand,
estimation of the current resource requirement on
the basis of load measurements is discussed and, on
the other hand, we present efficient algorithms for
resource sharing respecting real-time requirements.
Our approach suggested for resource and traffic management
allows one to achieve significantly better utilization
of network resources which is demonstrated
by means of examples.
Bibtex
@InProceedings{WoW03,
author = {Jürgen Wolf and Bernd Wolfinger},
title = {Efficient Resource Management for Distributed Applications with Real-Time Requirements in Broadcast Networks},
howpublished = {8th CaberNet Radicals Workshop},
month = {October},
year = {2003}
}