A multimedia ontology-driven architecture for autonomic quality of service management in home networks

In the current context of the Internet, a major research challenge is to enable applications and users to have their communications systems with an optimal quality of service (QoS). Indeed, QoS provisioning should take into account the available machine and network resources, which capacities and performances are heterogeneous, variable, and not known in advance. The optimal QoS provisioning for the future autonomous communication systems requires the characterization of available services and communication resources and also taking into account the expressions of needs and preferences of different actors in the system (users, service providers, etc.). The subject of this thesis deals with the definition of a QoS ontology-based semantic framework for the characterization of network resources and communication services in order to provide better QoS according to the needs and preferences of users. This framewor! k will be used in the definition of objectives and QoS constraints as well as in the development of decision models in order to provide QoS for autonomous communication systems located in the context of home networks.

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