Open Distributed Processing and Multimedia

  • Authors:
  • Gorden S. Blair;Jean-Bernard Stefani

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Open Distributed Processing and Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

From the Publisher:The need to support multimedia in ODP environments in a major challenge when setting up such networks. This book has been written specifically to address the problems of supporting multimedia applications, such as desktop conferencing, multimedia email, video on-demand systems and virtual reality environments, in ODP standards and platforms. This book provides an introduction to the field of ODP, with detailed descriptions of ISO's, RM-ODP, OMG's, CORBA and Open Group's DCE a description of the requirements of distributed multimedia applications (in terms of support for continuous media, quality of service, real-time synchronization and mutliparty communications) an evaluation of these ODP platforms with respect to their support for multimedia a detailed description of an architecture for ODP standards and platforms supporting multimedia a description of two proof-of-concept demonstrators focusing on the programming model and on engineering support This book is based on the research generated by teh SUMO project, a collaboration between Centre Nationale d'Etudes Télécommunications (CNET) France and Telecom at Issy les Molineaux, France, and Lancaster University in the UK. 0201177943B04062001