Scoot: an object-oriented toolkit for multimedia collaboration
MULTIMEDIA '94 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Multimedia
DAVE: a plug and play model for distributed multimedia application development
MULTIMEDIA '94 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Multimedia
Agile application-aware adaptation for mobility
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Mobiware: QOS-aware middleware for mobile multimedia communications
HPN '97 Proceedings of the IFIP TC6 seventh international conference on High performance netwoking VII
Real-Time Dependable Channels: Customizing QoS Attributes for Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Scalable multimedia delivery for pervasive computing
MULTIMEDIA '99 Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Multimedia (Part 1)
MULTIMEDIA '00 Proceedings of the eighth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Middleware '01 Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms Heidelberg
StreamIt: A Language for Streaming Applications
CC '02 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Compiler Construction
Dynamic Component Gluing Across Different Componentware Systems
DOA '99 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications
An End-to-End QoS Management Architecture
RTAS '99 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium
GaiaOS: An Infrastructure for Active Spaces
GaiaOS: An Infrastructure for Active Spaces
Reifying communication at the application level
M3W Proceedings of the 2001 international workshop on Multimedia middleware
Quality of services specification in distributed object systems design
COOTS'98 Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems - Volume 4
CPU Service Classes for Multimedia Applications
ICMCS '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 2
A control-based middleware framework for quality-of-service adaptations
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Adaptive Offloading Inference for Delivering Applications in Pervasive Computing Environments
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Program control language: a programming language for adaptive distributed applications
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Grid resource management
Use of ontologies in a pervasive computing environment
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Towards building large scale multimedia systems and applications: challenges and status
Proceedings of the first ACM international workshop on Multimedia service composition
Dynamic Service Composition in Pervasive Computing
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
A programming environment for ubiquitous computing environment
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Designing self-adaptive multimedia applications through hierarchical reconfiguration
DAIS'05 Proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
EUC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Emerging Directions in Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
UIC'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
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Ubiquitous computing promises a computing environment that seamlessly and pervasively delivers applications to the user, despite changes of resources, devices, and locations. However, few ubiquitous multimedia applications (UMAs) exist up-to-date. One of the main reasons lies in the fact that it is difficult and error-prone to build a UMA which is mobile and deployable in different ubiquitous environments, and still provides acceptable application-specific Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a novel programming framework, called 'QCompiler" to address the challenges. The framework includes (1) a high-level application specification for the application developer to easily write a UMA with specific quality, mobility, and ubiquity supports, (2) a meta-data compilation, which provides automated consistency checks, translations, and substitutions, to relieve the application developer from dealing with complex programming related to quality, mobility, and ubiquity, (3) a binding, which prepares a quality-aware specification to be executable, in a specific deployment environment, and (4)a run-time meta-data execution, utilizing the meta-data compilation's results, to manage and control a quality-aware multimedia application. As a case study, we apply the programming framework to build a mobile Video-on-Demand (VoD) application. The experimental results show tradeoffs between easiness and flexibility to develop and deploy UMA, and overheads during UMA instantiation and adaptation.