Title :
Multimedia networks: issues and challenges
Author_Institution :
Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA
fDate :
4/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Video on demand, teleconferencing, digital libraries, and remote tutoring systems are just a few of the many distributed multimedia applications that have emerged in recent years. Widespread use of such applications requires networks that can offer transport services to both discrete media (such as text and digital images) and continuous media (such as audio and video). The discussion explores some of the issues involved in the design of such networks
Keywords :
multimedia communication; multimedia systems; telecommunication network management; continuous media; digital libraries; discrete media; multimedia networks; remote tutoring systems; teleconferencing; transport services; video on demand; Application software; Communication system traffic control; Contracts; Delay effects; Packet switching; Streaming media; Switches; Telecommunication traffic; Testing; Traffic control;
