Optimizing a CORBa Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) Engine for Minimal Footprint Embedded Multimedia Systems

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1673-1706

  Gokhale, Aniruddha S ^a,b,c   Schmidt, Douglas C ^a,d,e  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Common object request broker architecture (CORBA) performance optimizations; Embedded multimedia applications; Minimal footprint object request brokers (ORB's)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005256794     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.790489     Document Type: Article

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