A Logical Approach to Quality of Service Specification in Video Databases

  • Authors:

  • Elisa Bertino;Ahmed K. Elmagarmid;Mohand-Saïd Hacid

  • Affiliations:

  • Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, University of Milano, Via Comelico, 39/41 20135 Milano, Italy. bertino@dsi.unimi.it;Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. ake@cs.purdue.edu;UFR d'Informatique, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 8, blvd Niels Bohr 69622 Villeurbanne, France. mshacid@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr

  • Venue:
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Quality of Service (QoS) is defined as a set of perceivable attributes expressed in a user-friendly language with parameters that may be objective or subjective. Objective parameters are those related to a particular service and are measurable and verifiable. Subjective parameters are those based on the opinions of the end-users. We believe that quality of service should become an integral part of multimedia database systems and users should be able to query by requiring a quality of service from the system. The specification and enforcement of QoS presents an interesting challenge in multimedia systems development. A deal of effort has been done on QoS specification and control at the system and the network levels, but less work has been done at the application/user level. In this paper, we propose a language, in the style of constraint database languages, for formal specification of QoS constraints. The satisfaction by the system of the user quality requirements can be viewed as a constraint satisfaction problem, and the negotiation can be viewed as constraint optimization. We believe this paper represents a first step towards the development of a database framework for quality of service management in video databases. The contribution of this paper lies in providing a logical framework for specifying and enforcing quality of service in video databases. To our knowledge, this work is the first from a database perspective on quality of service management.