A Flexible Middleware for Multimedia Communication: Design, Implementation, and Experience

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1580-1598

  Stiller, Burkhard ^a   Class, Christina ^a   Waldvogel, Marcel ^a   Caronni, Germano ^a,b   Bauer, Daniel ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Application programming interface; Flexible middleware; Protocol processing support; Quality of service (QoS); Security

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003130886     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.790483     Document Type: Article

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