On-demand hypermedia/multimedia service over broadband networks

Author

Bouras, C. ; Kapoulas, V. ; Spirakis, P. ; Miras, D. ; Ouzounis, V. ; Tatakis, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Patras Univ., Greece

fYear

1996

fDate

6-9 Aug. 1996

Firstpage

224

Lastpage

231

Abstract

We present a unified approach for delivering hypermedia/multimedia objects over broadband networks. Documents are stored in various multimedia servers, while the inline data may reside in their own media servers, attached to the multimedia servers. The described service consists of several multimedia servers and a set of functions that intend to present to the end user interactive information in real time. Users interact with the service requesting multimedia documents on demand. Various media streams are transmitted over different parallel connections according to their transmission requirements. The hypermedia documents are structured using a hypermedia markup language that keeps information of the spatio temporal relationships among document´s media components. In order to deal with the variant network behavior, buffering manipulation mechanisms and grading of the transmitted media quality techniques are proposed to smooth presentation and synchronization anomalies.

Keywords

broadband networks; document handling; hypermedia; multimedia communication; page description languages; real-time systems; user interfaces; broadband networks; buffering manipulation mechanisms; hypermedia documents; hypermedia markup language; hypermedia/multimedia objects; hypermedia/multimedia service; inline data; interactive information; media components; media servers; media streams; multimedia documents; multimedia servers; parallel connections; spatio temporal relationships; synchronization anomalies; transmission requirements; transmitted media quality techniques; unified approach; user interaction; variant network behavior; Application software; Broadband communication; Buffer storage; Computer networks; Context modeling; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Streaming media; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1996., Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY, USA

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7582-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1996.546192

Filename

546192