Group communication protocol for multimedia applications

Author

Shimamura, Kenichi ; Tanaka, Katsuya ; Takizawa, Makoto

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Syst. Eng., Tokyo Denki Univ., Saitama, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

303

Lastpage

308

Abstract

In distributed applications like teleconferences, a group of multiple processes are cooperating, where messages exchanged among the processes are required to be causally delivered. The processes are exchanging kinds of multimedia objects in addition to traditional text data. The multimedia objects are longer than traditional messages and are structured an part-of relations. In this paper, we discuss new types of causally precedent relations among multimedia objects transmitted in the network. We discuss a protocol to causally deliver multimedia objects in a group of processes. We also present the evaluation of the protocol

Keywords

multimedia systems; protocols; synchronisation; causally precedent relations; group communication protocol; multimedia applications; multimedia objects; multiple processes; teleconferences; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Delay effects; Distributed computing; MPEG 4 Standard; Multimedia communication; Protocols; Quality of service; Systems engineering and theory; Teleconferencing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Networks and Mobile Computing, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Alamitos, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1381-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCNMC.2001.962612

Filename

962612