An Open Middleware Architecture for Network-Integrated Multimedia
IDMS/PROMS 2002 Proceedings of the Joint International Workshops on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Protocols for Multimedia Systems: Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia
Quartz: A QoS Architecture for Open Systems
ICDCS '00 Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS 2000)
Service Location using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
ICNS '06 Proceedings of the International conference on Networking and Services
Middleware abstractions for cross-layer controlled media streaming
Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Middleware-application interaction: affiliated with the DisCoTec federated conferences 2008
OSGi4C: enabling OSGi for the cloud
Proceedings of the Fourth International ICST Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and middlewaRE
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The globalisation of our society leads to an increasing need for spontaneous communication.. However, the development of such applications is a tedious and error-prone process. This results from the fact that in general only basic functionality is available in terms of protocol implementations and encoders/decoders. This leads to inflexible proprietary software systems implementing unavailable functionality on their own. In this work we introduce Instant-X, a novel component-based middleware platform for multimedia applications. Unlike related work, Instant-X provides a generic programming model with an API for essential tasks of multimedia applications with respect to signalling and data transmission. This API abstracts from concrete component implementations and thus allows replacing specific protocol implementations without changing the application code. Furthermore, Instant-X supports dynamic deployment, i.e., unavailable components can be automatically loaded at runtime. To show the feasibility of our approach we evaluated our Instant-X prototype regarding code complexity and performance.