Position summary: a streaming interface for real-time interprocess communication

Timely transfer of long, continuous data streams and handling data omission are stringent requirements of multimedia applications. To cope with these requirements, we extend well known mechanisms for inter-address-space data transmission, such as zero-copy and fast IPC, by the notion of time. Therefore, we add a time track to data streams and add mechanisms to limit the validity of data. For cases of overload we add notification and revocation techniques.