On the Design of a QoS-Aware MPEG-4 Multimedia Server

This paper presents the design of a QoS-aware MPEG-4 multimedia-streaming system. This system was designed as a platform to take advantage of the QoS functionality that is being quickly introduced into the Internet. The system deals with the particular difficulties involved in providing quality of service streaming for complex multi-object media such as MPEG-4. The delivery framework in this design is a hybrid version of the Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework (DMIF). The issues addressed by the proposed Server architecture include resource reservation, QoS messaging, multi-stream scheduling, and rate control