id: 02235160
dt: j
an: 02235160
au: Bruneo, D.; Zaia, A.; Puliafito, A.
ti: Agent-based middleware to access multimedia services in a grid environment.
so: Multiagent Grid Syst. 1, No. 1, 41-59 (2005).
py: 2005
pu: IOS Press, Amsterdam
la: EN
cc: 
ut: mobile computing; location and context awareness; QoS management; adaptive
    services; mobile agents; grid computing
ci: 
li: http://iospress.metapress.com/link.asp?id=a9eaj46gwy775lmv
ab: Summary: The increasing development of wireless devices and the diffusion
    of mobile computing require big efforts in order to satisfy the
    users’ needs. The management of advanced services such as the
    multimedia streaming involves several operations like QoS management,
    location and context awareness, tailoring, load balancing, power
    saving, etc. This paper presents the very complex and challenging issue
    to design a comprehensive middleware to allow mobile wireless user to
    access advanced services available in the wired part of the network.
    The overall middleware is distributed on the areas involved in wireless
    service provisioning (Wireless Network, Wired Network, Access Points)
    and has been implemented by using the mobile agent paradigm. In order
    to improve the management of wired resources the use of the Grid
    Computing paradigm has been investigated. A testbed has been developed
    that is used as an experimental environment to provide mobile users the
    access to multimedia streaming flows while moving and at a given level
    of QoS.
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