Open Distributed Processing and Multimedia

Gordon Blair, J.B. Stefani (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

480 Seiten

1997
Addison-Wesley Professional (Verlag)
978-0-201-17794-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This work covers the various standards and platforms for open distributed processing and the support they provide for multimedia. It is designed to address the problems of supporting applications such as desktop conferencing, multimedia e-mail, and virtual reality environments.

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The need to support multimedia in Open Distributed Processing (ODP) environments is a major challenge when setting up distributed network systems. This book has been written specifically to address the problems of supporting multimedia applications, such as desktop conferencing, multimedia email, video-on-demand systems and virtual reality environments, in ODP standards and platforms. This book provides: *an introduction to the field of ODP, with detailed descriptions of ISO's RM-ODP, OMG's CORBA and Open Group's DC *a description of the requirements of distributed multimedia applications (in terms of support for continuous media, quality of service, real-time synchronization and multiparty communications *an evaluation of these ODP platforms with respect to their support for multimedi *a detailed description of an architecture for ODP standards and platforms supporting multimedi *a description of two proof-of-concept demonstrators focusing on the programming model and on engineering support For information on Middleware '98 , IFIP International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing, 15-18 September 1998, link to:

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.1997
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 178 x 242 mm
• Gewicht: 825 g
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
• ISBN-10: 0-201-17794-3 / 0201177943
• ISBN-13: 978-0-201-17794-7 / 9780201177947
• Zustand: Neuware