Using dynamic configuration to manage a scalable multimedia distribution system
✍ Scribed by F Kon; R.H Campbell; K Nahrstedt
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 795 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-3664
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✦ Synopsis
Multimedia applications and interfaces will change radically the way computer systems will look like in the coming years. Radio and TV broadcasting will assume a digital format and their distribution networks will be integrated to the Internet. Existing hardware and software infrastructures, however, are unable to provide all the scalability, ¯exibility, and quality of service (QoS) that these applications require.
We present a framework for building scalable and ¯exible multimedia distribution systems that greatly improves the possibilities for the provision of quality of service in large-scale networks. We show how to use architectural-awareness, mobile agents, and a CORBA-based framework to support dynamic (re)con®guration, ef®cient code distribution, and fault-tolerance. This approach can be applied not only for multimedia distribution, but also for any QoS-sensitive distributed application.