Resource management concept

Resource manager configured to assign communication resources to user entities, comprising

• an electronic circuit, or a microprocessor, configured to
• extract, from an explicit signalization within a data traffic from a client operating at one of the user entities to a server, information on a fill level for buffering the media content at the client,
• receive from the user entity a set of parameters which are derived from the media presentation description sent from the server to the client and describe versions of different bandwidths of the media content, and
• assign the communication resources to the user entities depending on the set of parameters and the information on the fill level,
• wherein the communication resources are radio resources, and
• wherein the resource manager is configured to receive the explicit signalization and the set of parameters via messages which indicate, as a first addressee, the resource manager, wherein the first addressee is different from a second addressee as which the server is indicated by media requests sent from the client to the server in order to retrieve the media content from the server.

Method for being performed on a user entity on which a client is operative, the user entity communicating via communication resources, the method comprising

• determining a fill level of a buffer of the client for buffering a media content retrieved by the client from a server,
• deriving a set of parameters from a media presentation description received from the server, the set of parameters describing versions of different bandwidths of the media content, and
• informing a resource manager responsible for assigning the communication resources to a plurality of user entities to which the user entity belongs, on
• the determined fill level and
• the set of parameters,
• wherein the communication resources are radio resources, and
• wherein the user entity informs the resource manager on the fill level and the set of parameters via messages which indicate, as a first addressee, the resource manager, wherein the first addressee is different from a second addressee as which the server is indicated by media requests sent from the client to the server in order to retrieve the media content from the server.