Design and implementation of a distributed multimedia collaborative environment

  • Authors:

  • James Won-Ki Hong;Young-Mi Shin;Myoung-Sup Kim;Jae-Young Kim;Young-Ho Suh

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea;Human Computing Research Division, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Cluster Computing
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Multimedia applications are being developed and used for many aspects of our lives today. New high-speed, broadband networks have emerged and made the operation of these high-bandwidth requiring applications readily feasible. However, the development of distributed multimedia applications and efficient and reliable operation of these applications are still very difficult. This paper presents a flexible and reliable distributed multimedia collaborative environment called MAESTRO which provides a rich multimedia collaborative service API and which provides distributed multimedia services that can be used to develop a variety of multimedia applications easily. MAESTRO has been designed using CORBA. The system as well as applications running on it are managed and controlled in order to provide a reliable and efficient multimedia operations environment. We validate our claim by developing a number of multimedia applications using our distributed multimedia system and by using them for supporting distributed collaborative scientific and engineering research experiments.