ARTIFACT: a platform for evaluating real-time window system designs

Author

Sasinowski, John E. ; Strosnider, Jay K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

5-7 Dec 1995

Firstpage

342

Lastpage

352

Abstract

Multimedia and advanced real-time systems integrate a variety of applications and media types in one environment, many of which have timing properties which are not supported by current window systems running in multitasking environments. This paper discusses several key aspects to designing window systems which support continuous media and other real-time applications. These design considerations were used to construct ARTIFACT, a window system designed to investigate issues in building real-time window systems. Several of the behaviors of a partial implementation of ARTIFACT are described, along with preliminary scheduling models and avenues for further research

Keywords

client-server systems; graphical user interfaces; multimedia computing; processor scheduling; real-time systems; resource allocation; ARTIFACT; multimedia support; multitasking environments; operating system support; preliminary scheduling models; real-time applications; real-time window system designs; timing properties; Buildings; Concurrent computing; Displays; Games; Hardware; Multimedia systems; Multitasking; Real time systems; Streaming media; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real-Time Systems Symposium, 1995. Proceedings., 16th IEEE

Conference_Location

Pisa

ISSN

1052-8725

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7337-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/REAL.1995.495223

Filename

495223