Flexible multimedia system for multimedia communication services

Distributed multimedia system which not only integrates various multimedia information distributed over computer networks and but also provides it to users in accordance with the user's requirements during realtime multimedia communication must guarantee the user requested quality of services (QoS) even though the computer and network resources change statically or dynamically. We have proposed a flexible multimedia system (FMS) which is based on agent-oriented architecture and is able to organize required functions itself. This paper describes about the FMS architecture for multimedia teleconference service with adaptive QoS guarantee functions. In multimedia teleconference service, FMS is able to realize the one of multimedia communication services flexibly for service requests and QoS requests from users.