Flexible multimedia system for multimedia communication services

Abstract

A distributed multimedia system which not only integrates various multimedia information distributed over computer networks, but also provides it to users in accordance with the user's requirements during real-time multimedia communication must guarantee the user requested quality of service (QoS) even though the computer and network resources change statically or dynamically. We have proposed a flexible multimedia system (FMS) which is based on an agent-oriented architecture and is able to organize required functions itself. This paper describes the FMS architecture for a multimedia teleconference service with adaptive QoS guarantee functions. In a multimedia teleconference service, FMS is able to realize multimedia communication services flexibly for service requests and QoS requests from users.