Title page for ETD etd-10162003-171616

Type of Document

Master's Thesis

Author

Ramaraj, Sharath

URN

etd-10162003-171616

Title

Supporting Quality of Service in Distributed Virtual Environments

Degree

Master of Science

Department

Computer Science

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
Gracanin, Denis	Committee Chair
Chen, Ing-Ray	Committee Member
Lu, Chang-Tien	Committee Member

Keywords

Quality of Service(QoS)
Neural Networks
Real-time
Distributed Virtual Environments
Dynamic Programming

Date of Defense

2003-09-19

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

We present a resource allocation perspective to Quality of Service in Distributed Virtual
Environments. The user of a DVE system will have improved Quality of Service if he/she
is allocated the right amount of resources at the right time. Instead of allocating resources
on a static basis, we adopt a dynamic need based resource allocation scheme that provides real-time resource allocation. Optimal resource assignments are calculated o2ine and a neural network is trained with the knowledge of optimal solutions from the o2ine Operations Research Techniques and it is then used to deliver near-optimal resource allocation decisions in real-time. We also present a case study of network bandwidth allocation and prove the usefulness of the technique.

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