Title :
Communication support for a distributed hypermedia system
Author :
Lu, G.J. ; Pung, H.K. ; Chua, T.S. ; Chan, S.F.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Syst. & Comput. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
A distributed multimedia information system should support retrieval of both static and time-dependent continuous media. The isochronous nature of continuous media imposes a very strict requirement on communication support, in terms of bandwidth, delay and delay jitter. This paper first introduces a distributed hypermedia system (DHS) being developed. It shows that in order to support the retrieval of continuous media of arbitrary length, communication bandwidth, delay bound and delay jitter bound must be guaranteed. The authors then present experiences and results of their initial implementation of the system on UNIX workstations connected via Ethernet. Finally, they evaluate the suitability of the current platform and present their future work plan
Keywords :
Unix; delays; distributed databases; hypermedia; jitter; local area networks; workstations; Ethernet; UNIX workstations; communication bandwidth; communication support; delay bound; delay jitter; distributed hypermedia system; distributed multimedia information system; retrieval of continuous media; Bandwidth; Databases; Delay; High-speed networks; Information retrieval; Information systems; Jitter; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Networks, 1993. International Conference on Information Engineering '93. 'Communications and Networks for the Year 2000', Proceedings of IEEE Singapore International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1445-X
DOI :
10.1109/SICON.1993.515743
