IMcast: an object-oriented tool for image multicasting

Author

Kass, Eric R. ; McKinley, Philip K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

3-6 Jun 1997

Firstpage

616

Lastpage

617

Abstract

An online still image distribution system, IMcast, was developed to support instruction in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University. The main objective of this project was to build a system that could quickly dispense medical images from an instructor´s workstation to PCs on student desktops with no degradation in image quality. IMcast uses a client/server paradigm and is designed to take advantage of the message-based Microsoft Windows operating system. Images are transmitted using IP multicast and a negative acknowledgement protocol. Development of large software applications dictates a modular design. Object orientation facilitates this organization by forcing software components to interact with one another by way of public interfaces. The object-oriented IMcast architecture is presented

Keywords

audio-visual systems; client-server systems; computer aided instruction; educational aids; object-oriented programming; protocols; visual databases; IMcast; IP multicast; Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine; client/server paradigm; image multicasting; image quality; image transmission; instructor workstation; large software application development; medical images; message-based Microsoft Windows operating system; modular design; negative acknowledgement protocol; object-oriented architecture; object-oriented tool; online still image distribution system; public interfaces; software components; student desktop PCs; Application software; Biomedical imaging; Computer science; Displays; Multicast protocols; Operating systems; Personal communication networks; Sockets; Workstations; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems '97. Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5530-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1997.609783

Filename

609783