Title :
End-system resource management for digital audio and video
Author :
Robin, Philippe ; Coulson, Geoff ; Campbell, Andrew ; Blair, Gordon S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput., Lancaster Univ., UK
Abstract :
Research at Lancaster University is aimed at providing system software support for distributed real-time and multimedia applications in an environment of conventional workstations and high-speed networks. Our approach is to use a micro-kernel operating system, specifically Chorus, to underpin both UNIX and real-time applications. A standard UNIX SVR4 `personality´ included with Chorus is used to support UNIX applications alongside our real-time extensions. We briefly review resource management aspects of the design and deal with CPU scheduling, network resource management and memory management issues
Keywords :
Unix; distributed processing; multimedia systems; operating systems (computers); real-time systems; resource allocation; CPU scheduling; Chorus; UNIX; UNIX SVR4; digital audio; distributed real-time systems; high-speed networks; memory management; micro-kernel operating system; multimedia applications; network resource management; resource management; system software support; video; workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London