Controlling and managing distributed multimedia applications

Author

Rezende, José F. ; Fdida, Serge

Author_Institution

Lab. MASI, CNRS, Paris, France

fYear

1995

fDate

3-7 Jul 1995

Firstpage

565

Lastpage

570

Abstract

This paper describes a service by which users will be able to select, configure and activate multimedia services in a multivendor broadband environment. The service interface hides the difficulties and details of handling these complex services from the application. An abstract model is defined that accommodates an extensive set of services involving communication and end-systems. The paper defines several abstractions, describes these abstractions by an object-oriented approach and defines a set of primitives for the manipulation of these objects. To show the applicability of our service, a video-on-demand distribution scenario is used

Keywords

broadband networks; interactive television; interactive video; multimedia communication; object-oriented methods; telecommunication network management; abstract model; abstractions; communication systems; distributed multimedia applications; end-systems; multivendor broadband environment; object-oriented approach; primitives; service interface; video-on-demand distribution scenario; Broadband communication; Context-aware services; Disaster management; Distributed control; Environmental management; High-speed networks; Multimedia systems; Object oriented modeling; Operating systems; Quality of service;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 1995. Theme: Electrotechnology 2000: Communications and Networks. [in conjunction with the] International Conference on Information Engineering., Proceedings of IEEE Singapore International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2579-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICON.1995.526351

Filename

526351