Clock hierarchies: An abstraction for grouping and controlling media streams

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 174-184

  Rothermel, Kurt ^a,b,c,d,e   Heibig, Tobias ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c IBM's European Networking Center   (Germany)

^d Distributed Systems Research Group   (Germany)

^e IEEE

^f Distributed Systems Research Group ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; USER INTERFACES;

ABSTRACTION; CLOCK HIERARCHIES; CONFIGURABLE INTEGRATED MULTIMEDIA ARCHITECTURE; MEDIA STREAMS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 0029752722     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.481703     Document Type: Article

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