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In the last decade, there has been an explosive growth in mobile computing technology and obviously an increase demand for platforms with multimedia application support. The desire to be connected “any-time, any-where and any-way” has led to an increasing array of heterogeneous systems, multimedia applications, devices, and service providers. In response to this issue, quality of service (QoS) is designed to hide low-level application variation and provide necessary service guarantees. In this contribution, motivation and operating guidelines for QoS assessment in real-time interactive multimedia communications are discussed and investigated. In particular, we consider the end-to-end service quality methodologies proposing a QoS evaluation technique by means of an unconventional use of fragile watermarking. Thus, by knowing the end-to-end QoS, it is possible to adopt optimal pricing strategies in terms of the QoS profiling for all the active users involved in the communication.
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Benedetto, F., Giunta, G., Neri, A. (2006). QoS Provisionig And Control In Real-Time Interactive Multimedia Communications Using Digital Watermarking. In: Davoli, F., Palazzo, S., Zappatore, S. (eds) Distributed Cooperative Laboratories: Networking, Instrumentation, and Measurements. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30394-4_6
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