Network support for multimedia: a discussion of the Tenet approach
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems - Special issue on a multi-dimensional view of multimedia
CHIMP: a framework for supporting distributed multimedia document authoring and presentation
MULTIMEDIA '96 Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Handling QoS negotiations in orchestrated multimedia presentations
Journal of High Speed Networks
IEEE MultiMedia
A Negotiation and Resource Reservation Protocol (NRP) for Configurable Multimedia Applications
ICMCS '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
Multimedia Tools and Applications
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Many multimedia presentation applications involve retrieval of objects from more than one collaborating server. Presentations of objects from different collaborating servers might be interdependent. For instance, we can consider distributed video servers where blocks of movies are distributed over a set of servers. Here, blocks of a movie from different video servers have to be retrieved and presented continuously without any gaps in the presentation. Such applications first need an estimate of the available network resources to each of the collaborating server in order to identify a schedule for retrieving the objects composing the presentation. A collaborating server can suggest modifications of the retrieval schedule depending on its load. These modifications can potentially affect the retrieval schedule for other collaborating applications. Hence, a sequence of negotiations have to be carried out with the collaborating servers in order to commit for a retrieval schedule of the objects composing the multimedia presentation. In this paper, we propose an application sub-layer protocol, Resource Lock Commit Protocol (RLCP), for handling the negotiation and commitment of the resources required for a collaborative multimedia presentation application.