A presentation agent for a distributed multimedia system over high speed networks

Author

Rody, J.A. ; Karmouch, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

18-22 Jun 1995

Firstpage

568

Abstract

In a distributed multimedia information system (DIMS), synchronization issues involved in the end-to-end presentation of multimedia data can be grouped into three levels, the source, network and user-interface. This paper describes a progressive retrieval strategy which sequentially retrieves independent synchronized entities from the multimedia database. The paper also presents an architecture for the presentation agent which performs the playback of multimedia documents

Keywords

information retrieval; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; software agents; synchronisation; telecommunication networks; architecture; distributed multimedia information system; high speed networks; independent synchronized entities; multimedia data presentation; multimedia database; multimedia documents playback; network; presentation agent architecture; progressive retrieval; progressive retrieval strategy; source; synchronization; user interface; Broadband communication; Distributed databases; High-speed networks; Information retrieval; Information systems; Laboratories; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Video compression; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1995. ICC '95 Seattle, 'Gateway to Globalization', 1995 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2486-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1995.525232

Filename

525232