The design and implementation of an operating system to support distributed multimedia applications

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1280-1296

  Leslie, Ian M ^a,b   McAuley, Derek ^c   Black, Richard ^b   Roscoe, Timothy ^d   Barham, Paul ^b   Evers, David ^e   Fairbairns, Robin ^b   Hyden, Eoin ^a,f  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d Persimmon IT Inc   (United States)

^e Nemesys Research Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^f LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS; MULTIPLEXING; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT; DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030244801     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.536480     Document Type: Article

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