Written specifically to address the problems of supporting multimedia applications, such as desktop conferencing, multimedia email, video-ondemand systems and virtual reality environments. DLC: Electronic data processing Distributed processing.
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Gordon Blair is a professor in the Computing Department at Lancaster University. His research interests lie in the areas of distributed multimedia computing, operating system support for continuous media and the impact of mobility on distributed systems.
Jean-Bernard Stefani is currently head of the Distributed Systems Research Department of CNET France Telecom. He is chairman of the Working Party in charge of the development of the Open Distributed Processing (ODP) framework in ITU-T Study Group 7.
Many organizations setting up distributed network systems suffer from problems caused by heterogeneity in hardware, operating systems and programming languages. Open distributed processing (ODP) provides open access to distributed system services and masks heterogeneity, allowing considerable benefits to be gained in terms of portability and interoperability of systems and applications.
The need to support multimedia in ODP environments in a major challenge when setting up such networks. This book has been written specifically to address the problems of supporting multimedia applications, such as desktop conferencing, multimedia email, video on-demand systems and virtual reality environments, in ODP standards and platforms.
This book providesThis book is based on the research generated by teh SUMO project, a collaboration between Centre Nationale d'Etudes Télécommunications (CNET) France and Telecom at Issy les Molineaux, France, and Lancaster University in the UK.
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