QOS REQUIREMENTS OF MULTIMEDIA DATA ON COMPUTER NETWORKS

This paper proposes quality of service (QoS) metrics for multimedia network applications based on human factors and technology attributes. Human factors describes human perception to different kinds of media, such as audio and video. Technology attributes represents the different technological attributes of multimedia applications, such as time-dependence and symmetry. Both of these key factors lead to varying requirements for quality of service. With these metrics, we can provide criteria for resource allocation for differentiated multimedia traffic in the realization of QoS on computer networks.