The work presented here has started as part of a FABRIC EU IST
project. The aim of the FABRIC project was to develop an
architecture in which several interoperability standards and
technologies in the home networking context can be integrated. In
addition, the FABRIC aimed to handle the complete network to satisfy
End-to-End Quality of service (QoS) requirements. In this paper we
propose an adaptive QoS framework for efficient resource management,
called the Matrix approach. The Matrix is a concept to abstract from
having detailed technical data at the middleware interface. In stead
of having technical data referring to QoS parameters like:
bandwidth, latency and delay we only have discrete portions that
refer to levels of quality. The underlying middleware must interpret
these values and map them on technical relevant QoS parameters.
2006.