NetMedia: giving control to distributed multimedia presentation systems

Author

Mielke, Markus ; Song, Yuqing ; Aygun, Ramazan ; Zhang, Aidong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

36373

Firstpage

276

Abstract

Advances in multimedia computing offer new approaches to support online access to information from a variety of sources such as video, audio, images, and transparencies. The key to success in providing distributed real time retrieval, is the control of network delay and congestion to keep up the desired quality of service (QoS). We present a new distributed multimedia database environment, called NetMedia. This environment can support controlled delivery of video, audio, and text data, across Internet. NetMedia can be the base of various distributed multimedia applications. As an example we present NetMedia-Virtual-Classroom, an asynchronous distance learning tool, which uses the advantages of the NetMedia framework

Keywords

Internet; distance learning; distributed databases; information retrieval; multimedia databases; quality of service; real-time systems; Internet; NetMedia framework; NetMedia-Virtual-Classroom; asynchronous distance learning tool; congestion; controlled delivery; distributed multimedia applications; distributed multimedia database environment; distributed multimedia presentation systems; distributed real time retrieval; multimedia computing; network delay; online access; quality of service; text data; Application software; Computer science; Control systems; Distributed control; Internet; Multimedia computing; Multimedia systems; Protocols; Read only memory; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 1999. Eleventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cleveland, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0046-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSDM.1999.787643

Filename

787643