The Prism distributed multimedia platform

Author

Toutain, Laurent ; Afifi, Hossam ; Le Narzul, Jean-Pierre

Author_Institution

RSM Dept., Ecole Nat. Superieure des Telecommun. de Bretagne, Brest, France

fYear

1995

fDate

27-29 July 1995

Firstpage

384

Lastpage

390

Abstract

The paper describes the Prism distributed multimedia platform. The paper is divided in three parts. The first part resumes the main components of the platform. The authors show the different planes that interact with both multimedia applications and network resources. The second part describes a different approach being developed for the platform to ease the distribution of multimedia objects. It is based on fragmented objects. The third part enumerates two different applications that have been developed for and on that platform. The first is a specific multimedia protocol and the second is a whiteboard used for tele-teaching.

Keywords

groupware; local area networks; multimedia communication; object-oriented methods; teleworking; transport protocols; Prism distributed multimedia platform; distribution; fragmented objects; multimedia objects; network resource; specific multimedia protocol; tele-teaching; whiteboard; Application software; Bandwidth; Delay; Hardware; Jitter; Protocols; Resumes; Software standards; Streaming media; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1995. Proceedings., IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Alexandria, Egypt

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7075-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCAC.1995.523692

Filename

523692