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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Supporting adaptive multimedia applications through open bindings
AU - Fitzpatrick, T
AU - Blair, Gordon
AU - Coulson, G
AU - Davies, N
AU - Robin, P
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - In order to support multimedia applications in mobile environments. it will be necessary for applications to be aware of the underlying,network conditions and also to be able to adapt their behaviour and that of the underlying platform. This paper focuses on the role of middleware in supporting such adaptation. In particular, Ive investigate the role of open implementation and reflection in the design of middleware platforms such as CORBA. The paper initially extends CORBA with the concept of explicit binding, where path of communication between objects is represented as first class objects. We then introduce the concept of open bindings which support inspection and adaptation of the path of communications. An implementation of open bindings is described, based on the Ensemble protocol suite from Cornell University.
AB - In order to support multimedia applications in mobile environments. it will be necessary for applications to be aware of the underlying,network conditions and also to be able to adapt their behaviour and that of the underlying platform. This paper focuses on the role of middleware in supporting such adaptation. In particular, Ive investigate the role of open implementation and reflection in the design of middleware platforms such as CORBA. The paper initially extends CORBA with the concept of explicit binding, where path of communication between objects is represented as first class objects. We then introduce the concept of open bindings which support inspection and adaptation of the path of communications. An implementation of open bindings is described, based on the Ensemble protocol suite from Cornell University.
U2 - 10.1109/CDS.1998.675766
DO - 10.1109/CDS.1998.675766
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 0-8186-8451-8
SP - 128
EP - 135
BT - 4th International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems, Proceedings
PB - IEEE Computer Society
CY - Los Alamitos
T2 - 4th International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems
Y2 - 4 May 1998 through 6 May 1998
ER -