Context-aware quality of service provisioning for real-time multimedia communications

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The growing interest in continuous media (audio/video) services, namely media streaming and multimedia conferencing over IP, coupled with technological advances in wireless and mobile networking, present new challenges and opportunities for Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning. For example, some sports events are watched by millions of online users connected to the Internet in a variety of ways including high speed connections (Cable or ADSL), modems, or wireless connections. Accommodating such large number of continuous media users, network connection heterogeneity, and the different QoS requirements for multimedia applications represents significant challenges.