Resource Management for Distributed Multimedia Systems
Resource Management for Distributed Multimedia Systems

Author: Lars Christian Wolf

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1461314135

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Resource Management for Distributed Multimedia Systems addresses the problems and challenges of handling several continuous- media data streams in networked multimedia environments. The work demonstrates how resource management mechanisms can be integrated into a stream handling system. The resulting system includes functions for Quality of Service (QoS) calculations, scheduling, determination of resource requirements, and methods to reduce resource requirements. The work explains the following: a suitable system architecture and resource management scheme that allows for the provision and enforcement of QoS guarantee, resource scheduling mechanisms for CPU and buffer space, mechanisms to measure and collect resource requirements, methods to extend resource management to future scenarios by allowing the reservation of resources in advance and offering sealing mechanisms. . Resource Management for Distributed Multimedia Systems is a comprehensive view of resource management for a broad technical audience that includes computer scientists and engineers involved in developing multimedia applications.

Advances In Distributed Multimedia Systems
Advances In Distributed Multimedia Systems

Author: Shi-kuo Chang

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1999-07-22

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 9814495794

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The last few years have seen an explosive growth in multimedia computing, communications and applications. This revolution is transforming the way people live, work, and interact with one another, and is impacting the way businesses, government services, education, entertainment, and health care are operating. It is safe to say that the multimedia revolution is underway. Yet, several issues related to modeling, specification, analysis and design of distributed multimedia systems and applications are still challenging both researchers and practitioners.This book addresses fundamental design issues and research topics, related to multimedia systems, and provides a comprehensive study of the issues. The topics covered include: distributed multimedia databases and computing; multiparadigmatic information retrieval; modeling and analysis of distributed multimedia systems; OS support for distributed multimedia systems; multimedia communications and networking; multimedia digital libraries and mail systems; multimedia human-computer interaction; multimedia applications for CSCW, distant education, electronic commerce teleconferencing, telemedicine; visual and multidimensional languages for multimedia applications; multimedia workflows; multimedia stream synchronization. In addition, a number of tutorial and overview articles are included so that the volume strikes a balance between introductory tutorials and advanced topics.

Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems
Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems

Author: Doug Shepherd

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-06-30

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 3540447636

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th We are very happy to present the proceedings of the 8 International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems IDMS 2001, in co-operation with ACM SIGCOMM and SIGMM. These proceedings contain the technical programme for IDMS 2001, held September 4 7, 2001 in Lancaster, UK. For the technical programme this year we received 48 research papers from both a- demic and industrial institutions all around the world. After the review process, 15 were accepted as full papers for publication, and a further 8 as short positional papers, intended to provoke debate. The technical programme was complimented by three invited papers: QoS for Multimedia What’s Going to Make It Pay? by Derek McAuley, E nabling the Internet to Provide Multimedia Services by Markus H- mann, and MPEG-21 Standard: Why an Open Multimedia Framework? by Fernando Pereira. The organisers are very grateful for the help they received to make IDMS 2001 a successful event. In particular, we would like to thank the PC for their first class - views of papers, particularly considering the tight reviewing deadlines this year. Also, we would like to acknowledge the support from Agilent, BTexact Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft Research, Orange, and Sony Electronics without whom IDMS 2001 would not have been such a memorable event. We hope that readers will find these proceedings helpful in their future research, and that IDMS will continue to be an active forum for the discussion of distributed mul- media research for years to come.

Interactive Video-On-Demand Systems
Interactive Video-On-Demand Systems

Author: T.P. Jimmy To

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 146155635X

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Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems: Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies addresses issues in scheduling and management of resources in an interactive continuous-media (e.g., audio and video) server. The book emphasizes dynamic and run-time strategies for resource scheduling and management. Such strategies provide effective tools for supporting interactivity with on-line users who require the system to be responsive in serving their requests, and whose needs and actions vary frequently over time. With an emphasis on responsiveness and transient performance, this book elaborates on dynamic strategies for managing and scheduling resources in Video-on-Demand/Multimedia systems. Unlike previous books, this volume presents an unprecedented detailed analysis of the start-up and departure of streams. It gives a comprehensive evaluation of various techniques as workloads are varied in multiple dimensions (including arrival rate, data rate and length of play). Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems: Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies collectively addresses multiple issues including QoS, throughput, responsiveness and efficiency. The solutions discussed in this volume are particularly valuable to practitioners who are building digital library, interactive multimedia and hypermedia servers. Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems: Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies is an excellent reference for researchers, practitioners and educators in the field of multimedia systems, and may be used for advanced courses on multimedia systems and Video-on-Demand servers.

Management Problems in Distributed Multimedia Systems
Management Problems in Distributed Multimedia Systems

Author: Mohammad Riaz Moghal

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2012-07

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9783847338871

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The distributed multimedia systems services require optimum resource allocation and application configuration. In multimedia applications intermediate processing should be done among distributed media sources and sinks. Such applications include format conversions and mixing several media streams. To support these applications computers at the intermediate stage are being used to relieving end-users terminals from massive processing loads. It is important to consider that intermediate processing components, IPCs, are not subject to location restrictions. In this thesis the problem of allocating IPCs is discussed. Researchers had already formulated the problem for common structures in multimedia application settings like star shaped graphs and Single-Host-Multiple-Satellite, SHMS, distributed architecture. This work discusses multimedia applications like star shaped graphs on presented Double Star or Double-Host-Multiple-Satellite, DHMS, and Multiple-Host-Multiple-Satellite, MHMS, distributed architectures. Star shaped applications cover typical multimedia systems such as videoconferencing, mixing, multicasting, and Video-on-Demand, VoD, etc.

Multimedia Systems
Multimedia Systems

Author: Ralf Steinmetz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 3662088789

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Multimedia Systems discusses the basic characteristics of multimedia operating systems, networking and communication, and multimedia middleware systems. The overall goal of the book is to provide a broad understanding of multimedia systems and applications in an integrated manner: a multimedia application and its user interface must be developed in an integrated fashion with underlying multimedia middleware, operating systems, networks, security, and multimedia devices. Fundamental characteristics of multimedia operating and distributed communication systems are presented, especially scheduling algorithms and other OS supporting approaches for multimedia applications with soft-real-time deadlines, multimedia file systems and servers with their decision algorithms for data placement, scheduling and buffer management, multimedia communication, transport, and streaming protocols, services with their error control, congestion control and other Quality of Service aware and adaptive algorithms, synchronization services with their skew control methods, and group communication with their group coordinating algorithms and other distributed services.

Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia
Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia

Author: Fernando Boavida

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-08-02

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 3540361669

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint International Workshops on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Protocols for Multimedia Systems, IDMS/PROMS 2002, held in Coimbra, Portugal in November 2002.The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on performance of protocols and applications, mobile multimedia systems, standards and related issues, quality of service, video systems and applications, resource management, and multimedia support.

Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Services
Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Services

Author: Berthold Butscher

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1996-02-26

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9783540609384

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the first European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Services, IDMS'96, held in Berlin, Germany in March 1996. The 21 revised papers included were carefully selected for presentation at the workshop; they examine current and new approaches to interactive distributed multimedia systems and services from different points of view, including research and development, management, and users. Among the topics addressed are application development support, multimedia services on demand, multimedia conferencing, multimedia networking, continuous-media streams, multimedia experiments.