An event-driven system for distributed multimedia applications

Author

Pfeifer, Alésio ; Ururahy, Cristina ; Rodriguez, Noemi ; Ierusalimschy, Roberto

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Pontificia Univ. Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

583

Lastpage

584

Abstract

We propose an architecture for distributed multimedia applications based on an event-driven programming model. To avoid the synchronization problems inherent to multi-threaded programming, the proposed architecture is based on a single-threaded structure. Instead of multi-threading, we opted for the event-oriented approach allied to multiple communication channels with user-defined handling procedures to allow the application to deal concurrently with control and data streams. We discuss this programming model, present the system we have implemented based on this model, and describe the experience we have had with this system.

Keywords

distributed programming; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; transport protocols; distributed multimedia applications; event-driven programming model; event-driven system; multiple communication channels; single-threaded structure; user-defined handling procedures; Application software; Communication channels; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Computer science; Context modeling; Control systems; Distributed computing; Multimedia systems; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2002. Proceedings. 22nd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1588-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCSW.2002.1030832

Filename

1030832