TY - GEN
T1 - Multi-level specification and protocol design for distributed multimedia communication
AU - Znati, Taieb F.
AU - Deng, Yi
AU - Field, Brian
AU - Chang, Shi Kuo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1991 ACM.
PY - 1991/10/1
Y1 - 1991/10/1
N2 - The major challenge in the design of an efficient distributed multimedia system is the integration and support of a wide variety of applications. Investigating the basic issues involved in the design and specification of distributed multimedia systems is the focus of this paper. A basic layered network architecture is proposed as the uniform framework for the investigation of different levels of functionality typically associated with the communication network that supports multimedia communication. Within this framework, we propose to identify the communication requirements for multimedia applications and characterize a set of communication primitives which specify different qualities of service to reflect different real-time requirements. This investigation is guided by an efficient and flexible multi-level specification model. We will characterize this model and show that the model can be amenable to the construction of a set of communication primitives that support synchronization and communication of multimedia applications.
AB - The major challenge in the design of an efficient distributed multimedia system is the integration and support of a wide variety of applications. Investigating the basic issues involved in the design and specification of distributed multimedia systems is the focus of this paper. A basic layered network architecture is proposed as the uniform framework for the investigation of different levels of functionality typically associated with the communication network that supports multimedia communication. Within this framework, we propose to identify the communication requirements for multimedia applications and characterize a set of communication primitives which specify different qualities of service to reflect different real-time requirements. This investigation is guided by an efficient and flexible multi-level specification model. We will characterize this model and show that the model can be amenable to the construction of a set of communication primitives that support synchronization and communication of multimedia applications.
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U2 - 10.1145/122831.122856
DO - 10.1145/122831.122856
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85029459250
SN - 0897914562
SN - 9780897914567
T3 - COCS 1991 - Proceedings of the Conference on Organizational Computing Systems
SP - 255
EP - 268
BT - COCS 1991 - Proceedings of the Conference on Organizational Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 1991 Conference on Organizational Computing Systems, COCS 1991
Y2 - 5 November 1991 through 8 November 1991
ER -