This paper describes the design and implementation of a file server for variable bit rate
continuous media. Most continuous media file servers have been designed for constant bit …

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

In September 1993, the Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research, in
collaboration with the IBM Toronto Laboratory Centre for Advanced Studies, initiated a major …

Distributed computing platforms have made their way out of the research lab nowadays, yet
support for some key application areas such as real time in general and multimedia in …

Complex multimedia applications have diverse resource and timing requirements. A
platform for building such programs therefore should supply the developer with mechanisms …

Abstract The Xpress Transport Protocol (XTP) is a lightweight transport protocol intended for
highspeed networks. High-speed networks provide bandwidths of 100 Mbps and beyond …

Media server software is significantly complicated to develop and maintain, due to the nature
of the many interface aspects which must be considered. This paper provides a case study …

Multimedia and other information services rely on distributed information flows with timing
constraints. These applications constitute pipelines connecting producers and consumers of …

The CITR News-On-Demand is a system whose architecture follows the client-server
paradigm: a distributed database provides multimedia news articles to users by means of a …

Up to now designers of multi-threaded run-time systems traditionally disdain readily
available user-level threads packages due to their inherent lack of exibility, resultant from …