Synchronized delivery of multimedia information over ATM networks
Communications of the ACM
System synthesis of synchronous multimedia applications
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
WORDS '97 Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems - (WORDS '97)
An agent based synchronization scheme for multimedia applications
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Quality software
Distributed multimedia information systems: an end-to-end perspective
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Adaptive internet interactive team video
ICWL'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Advances in Web-Based Learning
Dynamic integrated model for distributed multimedia system
KES'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part III
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Distributed, networked multimedia information systems will be a critical component of technology-based information infrastructures in the future. We present an infrastructure for supporting multimedia applications. We discuss various characteristics of multimedia data and the effect of the network on the required quality of presentation for multimedia data. We present a suite of synchronization protocols to support the quality of presentation. The crux of these protocols is the scheduling of multimedia information for synchronized delivery, over broadband networks with limited resources, and is identified as an NP-hard problem. We introduce two parameters which can be used to measure the performance of end-to-end synchronization protocols in a network supporting distributed multimedia applications. We propose and implement several heuristic scheduling algorithms, and compare their performance. We deduce the appropriateness of these algorithms in different types of distributed multimedia environments