Lack of multimedia tools in intervention support for running systems

Multimedia Tools for Teaching Reconfigurable Systems

Multimedia tools provide significant assistance in vast variety of different areas and one of them is education. The paper shows that such tools are especially important for constantly updating engineering courses which present recent advances in microelectronic industry. One of such courses is dedicated to learning reconfigurable systems based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) where man...

Operating system support for multimedia systems

Distributed multimedia applications will be an important part of tomorrow’s application mix and require appropriate operating system (OS) support. Neither hard real-time solutions nor best-effort solutions are directly well suited for this support. One reason is the coexistence of real-time and best effort requirements in future systems. Another reason is that the requirements of multimedia app...

Storage Systems Support for Multimedia Applications

Lately, on-demand streaming multimedia applications have become very popular. Contemporary personal computers can handle the load imposed by such multimedia applications on the client side, but the potentially high number of concurrent users accessing a server represents a generic problem. The multimedia storage system is responsible for storage and retrieval of multimedia data from storage dev...

Communications and Distributed Systems Support for Multimedia

Support for Open Tools and Systems

The construction of interactive tools for current computing environments relies upon a generic set of characteristics that include an architecture for interaction, a programmingmethodology based on the object oriented paradigm, and support for rapid prototyping and experimental programming. This paper describes foundational components that support the construction of these tools. Two di erent t...