Title :
A presentation agent for a distributed multimedia system over high speed networks
Author :
Rody, J.A. ; Karmouch, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
In a distributed multimedia information system (DIMS), synchronization issues involved in the end-to-end presentation of multimedia data can be grouped into three levels, the source, network and user-interface. This paper describes a progressive retrieval strategy which sequentially retrieves independent synchronized entities from the multimedia database. The paper also presents an architecture for the presentation agent which performs the playback of multimedia documents
Keywords :
information retrieval; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; software agents; synchronisation; telecommunication networks; architecture; distributed multimedia information system; high speed networks; independent synchronized entities; multimedia data presentation; multimedia database; multimedia documents playback; network; presentation agent architecture; progressive retrieval; progressive retrieval strategy; source; synchronization; user interface; Broadband communication; Distributed databases; High-speed networks; Information retrieval; Information systems; Laboratories; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Video compression; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 1995. ICC '95 Seattle, 'Gateway to Globalization', 1995 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2486-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.1995.525232
