Abstract
Media-aware flow scheduling in cloud computing environment has attracted much attention nowadays
because of the new possibilities they bring to many research and industry fields. Particularly, body area
networks, as a typical computing environment application in healthcare, allow ubiquitous monitoring of
patients, and more thorough patient diagnoses can be done with the help of multimedia service. In this
work, we propose a novel media-aware flow scheduling architecture with the aims of improving the multimedia
quality and increasing the networks lifetime. In order to avoid interfering with the multimedia
applications delay requirements, this work also proposes to analyze frames delay and jitter. The proposal
has proven to improve the multimedia quality and decrease the transmission delay in a controllable manner,
and thus the tradeoffs between QoS, lifetime, and delay requirements can be achieved according to
the considered
