  A novel quality of service (QoS) management algorithm for home networks is
presented in this letter. The algorithm is based on service prediction for
intelligent QoS management. The service prediction is carried out by a general
regression neural network with a profile containing the past records of the
service. A novel profile updating technique is proposed so that the profile
size can remain small for fast bandwidth allocation. The analytical study and
experiments over real LAN reveal that the proposed algorithm provides reliable
QoS management for home networks with low computational overhead.
