Supporting continuous media in open distributed systems architectures

Abstract

Recent developments in high-speed networks and highperformance workstations have led to the emergence of a new class of applications termed distributed multimedia applications. However, the range of distributed systems architectures currently being proposed to support open systems integration were largely conceived prior to these developments. Initial work directed towards the introduction of multimedia in environments compatible with ISO's Open Distributed Processing (ODP) standard has suggested that significant developments to the underlying architecture are required. These developments are now being reflected in new versions of the ODP standard. However, OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), currently emerging as a de-facto standard for distributed processing, does not fully address the requirements of multimedia computing. This paper reports on the impact that multimedia has had on the ODP community and examines how the community's experiences can be used as a basis for incorporating multimedia in DCE.KeywordsMultimedia ApplicationRemote Procedure CallDistribute Computing EnvironmentContinuous InterfaceBinding InformationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.