The design and implementation of an operating system to support distributed multimedia applications

Author

Leslie, Ian M. ; McAuley, Derek ; Black, Richard ; Roscoe, Timothy ; Barham, Paul ; Evers, David ; Fairbairns, Robin ; Hyden, Eoin

Author_Institution

Comput. Lab., Cambridge Univ., UK

Volume

14

Issue

7

fYear

1996

fDate

9/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1280

Lastpage

1297

Abstract

Support for multimedia applications by general purpose computing platforms has been the subject of considerable research. Much of this work is based on an evolutionary strategy in which small changes to existing systems are made. The approach adopted is to start ab initio with no backward compatibility constraints. This leads to a novel structure for an operating system. The structure aims to decouple applications from one another and to provide multiplexing of all resources, not just the CPU, at a low level. The motivation for this structure, a design based on the structure, and its implementation on a number of hardware platforms is described

Keywords

distributed processing; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; network operating systems; CPU; design; distributed multimedia applications; general purpose computing platforms; hardware platforms; multimedia applications; operating system; resources multiplexing; Hardware; Multimedia computing; Operating systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.536480

Filename

536480