%0 Conference Paper %B Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, 1999. ICCIMA '99. Proceedings %D 1999 %T Network service selection for distributed multimedia applications %A Simon,R. %A Sood,A. %A Mundur, Padma %K Admission control %K Application software %K application-adequate end-to-end service %K Bandwidth %K Communication system traffic control %K Computer science %K Delay %K distributed processing %K end-to-end delivery delay control %K flexibility %K high-bandwidth distributed multimedia applications %K interactive multimedia %K multimedia systems %K network service selection %K network throughput %K nonpreemptive earliest deadline first %K queueing theory %K Regulators %K system support %K telecommunication services %K Throughput %K Traffic control %K weighted fair queueing %X An important question in the development of system support for distributed multimedia is the type of network service offered to applications. This paper compares two network service disciplines: weighted fair queueing (WFQ) and non-preemptive earliest deadline first (NEDF). We show that, for a broad class of high-bandwidth distributed multimedia applications, WFQ outperforms NEDF in terms of network throughput while still providing an application-adequate end-to-end service. This result holds despite the fact that NEDF offers applications far greater flexibility in terms of control over end-to-end delivery delay %B Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, 1999. ICCIMA '99. Proceedings %I IEEE %P 388 - 392 %8 1999/// %@ 0-7695-0300-4 %G eng %R 10.1109/ICCIMA.1999.798561