Autonomic Resource Management for Multimedia Services Using Inventory Control

The proliferation of real-time multimedia services has triggered attempts by service providers to seek ways to reduce the cost of managing those services, while satisfying customer demands for the resources involved in the service delivery. A key issue is to avoid costly service interruptions in such real-time multimedia services. In this paper, we propose the use of the inventory control approach from the Operations Research community to remedy to this problem. We show two possible inventory control models to manage the resources involved in real-time multimedia service delivery. We also perform extensive simulations to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the two inventory control models for resource management of real-time multimedia services.