Title :
OPERA: storage, programming and display of multimedia objects
Author :
Moody, Ken ; Bacon, Jean ; Bates, John ; Lo, Sai Lai ; Wu, Zhisheng
Author_Institution :
Comput. Lab., Cambridge Univ., UK
Abstract :
The OPERA project seeks to support the interactive display of synchronized multiple types of media on workstations. This style of application needs high speed ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) networks and suitable protocols and operating systems, which exist at the University of Cambridge computer laboratory. Above this infrastructure, the authors have designed and are building a multiple-service storage architecture (MSSA), a platform to support the creation and interactive display of multimedia presentations (IMP), and a persistent programming language (PC++), for reliable and convenient programming of multimedia applications. The authors give an overview of the work of the OPERA project
Keywords :
asynchronous transfer mode; multimedia communication; protocols; OPERA; PC++; asynchronous transfer mode; high speed ATM; interactive display; interactive display of multimedia presentations; multimedia objects; multiple-service storage architecture; operating systems; overview; persistent programming language; programming; protocols; synchronized multiple types of media; Application software; Asynchronous transfer mode; Buildings; Computer architecture; Computer displays; Computer languages; Computer networks; Operating systems; Protocols; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Future Trends of
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4430-3
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.1993.344215
