CHANNELS: a run-time system for multimedia protocols

Author

Bocking, S. ; Seidel, Vera ; Vindeby, Per

Author_Institution

Corp. Res. & Dev., Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

fYear

1995

fDate

20-23 Sep 1995

Firstpage

178

Lastpage

185

Abstract

This paper presents CHANNELS, a run-time system for network protocol processing. CHANNELS is especially intended and optimized for transport systems supporting multimedia applications on high-speed networks. Additionally to the traditional features of a run-time system like the scheduling of the processing of different protocols, the provision of dedicated facilities such as timer, buffer and mapping table libraries for protocol implementation and the support of communication to adjacent protocol entities, network devices and user processes, CHANNELS enables the implementation of sophisticated protocols which require real-time and parallel processing capabilities, or dynamic protocol configuration support. CHANNELS is implemented in the C++ programming language and one prototype is embedded in the SUN/UNIX kernel

Keywords

C language; buffer storage; client-server systems; multimedia communication; network operating systems; object-oriented languages; scheduling; transport protocols; C++ programming language; CHANNELS; SUN/UNIX kernel; buffer; dynamic protocol configuration support; entities; high-speed networks; multimedia protocols; network devices; network protocol processing; parallel processing; run-time system; scheduling; table libraries; timer; transport systems; user processes; Computer languages; Dynamic scheduling; High-speed networks; Multimedia systems; Parallel processing; Protocols; Prototypes; Real time systems; Runtime library; Sun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 1995. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7180-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.1995.540117

Filename

540117