1. Introduction. - 1. 1 Motivation. - 1. 2 Related Work. - 1. 3 Outline and Relevance of this Work. - 2. System Architecture of the Multimedia Environment. - 2. 1 Related Multimedia Environments. - 2. 2 Basic System Architecture. - 2. 3 Execution Structure. - 2. 4 Stream Management. - 3. Resource Management Principles. - 3. 1 Resources to be Managed. - 3. 2 Needed Resource Management Functionality. - 3. 3 End-to-End Resource Management. - 3. 4 QoS Model. - 3. 5 Resource Management System Structuring. - 4. Resource Scheduling. - 4. 1 Buffer Space Management. - 4. 2 CPU Scheduling. - 5. Determination of Resource Requirements. - 5. 1 Resource Requirements of Applications. - 5. 2 Buffer Space Requirements. - 5. 3 CPU Processing Time. - 6. Reduction of Resource Requirements. - 6. 1 Buffer Space Requirements. - 6. 2 CPU Requirements. - 7. Advanced Resource Management Techniques. - 7. 1 Reserving Resources in Advance. - 7. 2 Scaling. - 8. Conclusions and Outlook. - Appendix A. - A. 1 Abbreviations. - A. 2 Trademarks. - References. Language: English