A distributed object platform infrastructure for multimedia applications

Computer Communications

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 802-818

  Coulson, Geoff ^a   Clarke, Mike ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CORBA; Distributed multimedia; Distributed object computing; Quality of service

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA; DISTRIBUTED OBJECT COMPUTING; QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS);

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032117489     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-3664(98)00147-9     Document Type: Article

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