A prioritized Petri net model and its application in distributed multimedia systems

Author

Guan, Sheng-Uei ; Yu, Hsiao-Yeh ; Yang, Jen-Shun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Comput. Eng., La Trobe Univ., Bundoora, Vic., Australia

Volume

47

Issue

4

fYear

1998

fDate

4/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

477

Lastpage

481

Abstract

The achievement of media synchronization has been dealt with in the Object Composition Petri Net (OCPN) model and the extended OCPN (XOCPN) model. Yet these two models are not enough for synchronization of computers in a distributed environment. This paper proposes a new Petri Net model-Prioritized Petri Net (P-net). The modeling power and properties of P-nets are analyzed. We apply the P-net model to distributed multimedia synchronization, using our version of Distributed Object Composition Petri Net (DOCPN) model. Using the DOCPN model, we can coordinate operations among distributed computer sites. The scenario is like a conductor conducting an orchestra to perform a symphony

Keywords

Petri nets; distributed processing; multimedia systems; synchronisation; Distributed Object Composition Petri Net; Object Composition Petri Net; Petri Net model; distributed environment; distributed multimedia; extended OCPN; media synchronization; prioritized Petri net; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer science; Conductors; Distance learning; Distributed computing; Humans; Multimedia systems; Petri nets; Power system modeling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computers, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9340

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/12.675716

Filename

675716