TY - GEN
T1 - Temporal control specifications and mechanisms for multimedia multicast communication services
AU - Kung, Hsu Yang
AU - Huang, Chung-Ming
PY - 2001/1/1
Y1 - 2001/1/1
N2 - The Internet explosion impels the extensive demands for distributed multimedia presentations (DMPs), which provide multiple users with QoS-controlled multimedia services under multicast communications, such as media distribution and virtual classroom. In this paper, we (i) identify the primary issues for ensuring smooth multiple-stream multimedia presentations in the multicast environment, (ii) propose a formal temporal definition to specify related attributes of a multimedia presentation, and (iii) propose a temporal control mechanism to achieve the temporal synchronization of multicast multimedia presentations. Based on the proposed temporal definition and control mechanism, a multimedia middleware for multicasting multiple streams is developed. The multimedia middleware is named TVMS (The Viusal Multicast Systems), which (i) provides a flexible authoring tool to allow users to author a multiple-stream multimedia presentation in a multicast environment and (ii) achieves smooth multimedia presentations.
AB - The Internet explosion impels the extensive demands for distributed multimedia presentations (DMPs), which provide multiple users with QoS-controlled multimedia services under multicast communications, such as media distribution and virtual classroom. In this paper, we (i) identify the primary issues for ensuring smooth multiple-stream multimedia presentations in the multicast environment, (ii) propose a formal temporal definition to specify related attributes of a multimedia presentation, and (iii) propose a temporal control mechanism to achieve the temporal synchronization of multicast multimedia presentations. Based on the proposed temporal definition and control mechanism, a multimedia middleware for multicasting multiple streams is developed. The multimedia middleware is named TVMS (The Viusal Multicast Systems), which (i) provides a flexible authoring tool to allow users to author a multiple-stream multimedia presentation in a multicast environment and (ii) achieves smooth multimedia presentations.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-47728-4_55
DO - 10.1007/3-540-47728-4_55
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33646015953
SN - 3540423028
SN - 9783540423027
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 559
EP - 568
BT - Networking - ICN 2001 - 1st International Conference on Networking, Proceedings
A2 - Lorenz, Pascal
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st International Conference on Networking, ICN 2001
Y2 - 9 July 2001 through 13 July 2001
ER -