期刊名称：International Journal of Reviews in Computing
印刷版ISSN：2076-3328
电子版ISSN：2076-3336
出版年度：2012
卷号：11
页码：32-47
出版社：Little Lion Scientific Research and Developement
摘要：The ever increasing demand of internet usage has given rise to many issues like internet application management, bandwidth utilization, protocols mechanism management and, etc. But the Quality of Service (QoS) has become the hottest issue among these issues. Over the past several years, a considerable amount of research work has been done in the field of QoS support for distributed multimedia applications. Most of the work related to QoS support is done at the level of individual architectural layers and a less progress has been made to address the overall end-to-end support for multimedia traffic. A number of research groups proposed the development of QoS architectures across all layers. This paper presents a state of the art survey of QoS architectures. The approach followed is to present the QoS terminology and understanding the QoS regarding distributed multimedia systems. A number of QoS architectures that have been appeared in literature after 1990 from the computer communications and telecommunications are fully evaluated. A qualitative comparison of several QoS architectures is made in the end.
关键词：Internet; Quality of Service; End-to-End support; Multimedia Traffic; QoS Architectures
