Kalinahia: Considering Quality of Service to Design and Execute Distributed Multimedia Applications

TL;DR

This paper introduces Kalinahia, a platform that dynamically manages multimedia applications to ensure quality of service and personalization in distributed environments.

Contribution

It presents a novel design method and a supervision platform that adapt multimedia applications based on user needs and network conditions.

Findings

Kalinahia effectively adapts to changing network conditions.

The platform improves user satisfaction by personalizing multimedia services.

It demonstrates the feasibility of dynamic QoS management in distributed systems.

Abstract

One of the current challenges of Information Systems is to ensure semi-structured data transmission, such as multimedia data, in a distributed and pervasive environment. Information Sytems must then guarantee users a quality of service ensuring data accessibility whatever the hardware and network conditions may be. They must also guarantee information coherence and particularly intelligibility that imposes a personalization of the service. Within this framework, we propose a design method based on original models of multimedia applications and quality of service. We also define a supervision platform Kalinahia using a user centered heuristic allowing us to define at any moment which configuration of software components constitutes the best answers to users' wishes in terms of service.