Enabling technology for distributed multimedia applications

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 489-505

  Wong, J W ^a,b,c,d,e   Lyons, K A ^f,g,h,i   Evans, D ^a,j   Velthuys, R J ^f,k,l,m,n,o   Bochmann, G V ^p,q,r,s   Dubois, E ^t   Georganas, N D ^t   Neufeld, G ^t   Ozsu M T ^t   Brinskelle, J ^t   Hafid, A ^t   Hutchinson, N ^t   Iglinski, P ^t   Kerherve B ^t   Lamont, L ^t   Makaroff, D ^t   Szafron, D ^t  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Waterloo ^*  (Canada)

^d IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e IEEE   (Canada)

^f IBM CANADA LTD   (Canada)

^g IBM TORONTO LAB   (Canada)

^h QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^k KPN RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^l IBM   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^o CITR Broadband Services

^p UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^q Hewlett Packard NSERC CITI   (United States)

^r Ctr de Rech Info de Montreal   (Canada)

^s IEEE   (Canada)

^t Université de Montréal ^*

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

MULTIMEDIA;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 0031363183     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.364.0489     Document Type: Article

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