A method for operating a real-time multimedia terminal in a QoS manner

A method for operating a terminal having at least one resource and executing at least one application in real-time, wherein the execution of the application requires execution of at least two tasks, comprises selecting operating points for each of the tasks from a predetermined set without knowing all implementation details. The method further comprises determining at least one implementation parameter for the selected quality-resource utilization operating point, wherein the determining is performed for each of the tasks, and wherein the determined implementation parameter is different than the quality and resource utilization, and executing the tasks with their determined implementation parameter.