Title :
An experimental multimedia communication system
Author :
Kündig, Albert ; Frey, Stefan ; Ingold, Daniel ; Rothlisberger, Urs
Author_Institution :
Comput. Eng. & Networks Lab., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
ETHMICS is a testbed to investigate various aspects of multimedia communication in a high-speed networked environment. With a view to realistic application experiments, a multimedia workstation has been developed, yielding new insights about workstation architecture and local access arrangements. In terms of software, ETHMICS is based on an object-oriented application framework. This framework has a videophone application as one of its first derivatives. Hardware and software developments have been complemented by some fundamental studies on the impact of multimedia quality of service (QOS) requirements on the strategies for scheduling workstation and network resources
Keywords :
multimedia communication; object-oriented programming; scheduling; telecommunication computing; test facilities; videotelephony; workstations; ETHMICS; hardware developments; high-speed networked environment; local access arrangements; multimedia communication system; multimedia workstation; object-oriented application framework; quality of service; scheduling; software developments; strategies; testbed; videophone; workstation architecture; Application software; B-ISDN; Computer architecture; Hardware; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Quality of service; Streaming media; System buses; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1993. ICC '93 Geneva. Technical Program, Conference Record, IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0950-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1993.397390
