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

Volume

2

fYear

1993

fDate

23-26 May 1993

Firstpage

838

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1993. ICC '93 Geneva. Technical Program, Conference Record, IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Geneva

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0950-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1993.397390

Filename

397390