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TY - JOUR
T1 - Experiences in implementing a distributed object platform for multimedia applications
AU - Coulson, G
AU - Baichoo, S
PY - 2000/5
Y1 - 2000/5
N2 - Two current trends in distributed computing are the emergence of standardized distributed object platforms such as CORBA, and the increasing use of continuous media data types. This paper describes and evaluates a platform which supports both standard CORBA interactions and continuous media interactions in a fully integrated environment, The platform is implemented as a self-contained support infrastructure (GOPI core) and a separate 'personality' that sits on top of the infrastructure and provides a CORBA API. The platform user can create both request/reply oriented and stream oriented bindings with quality of service specifications that are honoured (as far as possible) by the infrastructure. A framework for quality of service management which involves the monitoring and adaptation of quality levels is also supported. The level of performance attained by the platform provides evidence of the feasibility of natively supporting continuous media in a distributed object platform environment. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
AB - Two current trends in distributed computing are the emergence of standardized distributed object platforms such as CORBA, and the increasing use of continuous media data types. This paper describes and evaluates a platform which supports both standard CORBA interactions and continuous media interactions in a fully integrated environment, The platform is implemented as a self-contained support infrastructure (GOPI core) and a separate 'personality' that sits on top of the infrastructure and provides a CORBA API. The platform user can create both request/reply oriented and stream oriented bindings with quality of service specifications that are honoured (as far as possible) by the infrastructure. A framework for quality of service management which involves the monitoring and adaptation of quality levels is also supported. The level of performance attained by the platform provides evidence of the feasibility of natively supporting continuous media in a distributed object platform environment. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
KW - multimedia
KW - CORBA
KW - quality of service
KW - middleware
KW - distributed systems
U2 - 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(200005)30:6<663::AID-SPE313>3.0.CO;2-B
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(200005)30:6<663::AID-SPE313>3.0.CO;2-B
M3 - Journal article
VL - 30
SP - 663
EP - 683
JO - Software: Practice and Experience
JF - Software: Practice and Experience
SN - 0038-0644
IS - 6
ER -