Resource management for multimedia applications, distributed in open and heterogeneous home networks

The home network is an open, heterogeneous and distributed environment with quality of service requirement. Existing resource reservation strategies modify devices and applications and do not consider heterogeneity.This paper presents a non-intrusive and adaptable resource management framework, developed upon an architecture customized for the actual devices. It uses global components, delegating to local components the management of local resources. These components rely on the resource reservation mechanisms provided by Linux.The framework has been implemented on real devices. The evaluations show that reservations are guaranteed even with noise on the resources, which also guarantees the expected quality of service.