Despite the fact that the Internet Protocol has not been designed to carry real-time media
services at high data rate, such as digital TV in High Definition resolution, it is mean-while …

Internet protocol (IP) based media delivery enables applications such as Voice over IP or,
most recently, stereoscopic HD-TV. Suchlike transport of typically time-constrained media …

The current diversity of transport services, as well as the complexity resulting from the
deployment of specific transport protocols or mechanisms over the different services …

In the current context of the Internet, a major research challenge is to enable applications
and users to have their communications systems with an optimal quality of service (QoS) …

The advent of semantic web and the new communication technologies require finding new
solutions for self-deployment and self-adaptive distributed systems. In this paper, we …