What makes an operating system able to handle multimedia? This survey outlines the main
features an operating system must possess-from resource management to file system issues …

This paper proposes an approach for integrating CPU/disk/network scheduling and memory
management for supporting a variety of VCR operations and dynamic service changes …

The continuous-media application should use the real-time scheduling facility of the
operating system to satisfy the time constraints. We consider the problem of non …

Distributed multimedia applications need an effective synchronization strategy to deal with
the temporal disturbances introduced into the data streams by the transport and operating …

Abstract Quality-of-Service (QoS) issues in networking environments cover various separate
areas and topics. They include at least the speci cation of applications requirements, the de …

Recent progress in network technologies has made it possible to integrate digital video and
audio into distributed computing environments. Among the various distributed multimedia …

The support of sufficient Quality-of-Service (QoS) for applications residing in a distributed
environment and running on top of high performance networks is a demanding issue …

Orchestration refers to the specification and management of a multimedia presentation's life-
cycle. Once synonymous with synchronization, this broader interpretation is analogous to …

This paper presents a proportional-share CPU scheduler which can support multimedia
applications in a general-purpose workstation environment. For this purpose, we have …

This dissertation addresses the issues of designing a video server with the capability of
supporting a variety of VCR operations. A number of issues make the design of a video …