A media synchronization survey: Reference model, specification, and case studies

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-35

  Blakowski, Gerold ^b,c,d   Steinmetz, Ralf ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b IBM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SPECIFICATIONS; USER INTERFACES;

CONTINUOUS MEDIA OBJECT; MULTIMEDIA; REFERENCE MODEL; TEMPORAL RELATIONS; TIME DEPENDENT MEDIA OBJECTS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 0029755346     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.481691     Document Type: Review

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