A NETWORK MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SCENARIO FOR MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS

Emergence of multimedia applications requires that appropriate managem ent and control activities be provided and organized in a somewhat int egrated framework. Such issues as coordination of operations on the sh ared information, provision of the user requirements in terms of quali ty of service and efficient handling of the available network resource s result in more critical problems when they regard multimedia objects . Mainly this is due to the time-constrained requirements that arise f rom the need of synchronization among multiple streams of information which are different in their nature and granularity. This paper discus ses the impact of the above issues on network management and control a nd proposes an architectural model for the management and control of b roadband applications that require handling of multimedia information.