Building QoS into Distributed Systems

This work covers issues within QoS and discusses directions in building QoS into distributed systems. The following issues concerning QoS are discussed: human perception and dynamic QoS, programmability, guarantees in an integrated services internet, modelling, analysis and evaluation, uses within operating systems with regards to mobility in wireless networks and middleware solutions for end-to-end QoS. This volume contains the Fifth International Workshop Quality of Service, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in May 1997, Columbia University, New York, USA.