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Middleware support for distributed multimedia and collaborative computing
Author(s) -
Birman Kenneth P.,
Friedman Roy,
Hayden Mark,
Rhee Injong
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-024x(19991210)29:14<1285::aid-spe281>3.0.co;2-w
Subject(s) - computer science , middleware (distributed applications) , multimedia , quality of service , collaborative software , service (business) , world wide web , distributed computing , computer network , economy , economics
Maestro is a middleware support tool for distributed multimedia and collaborative computing applications. These applications share a common need for managing multiple subgroups while providing possibly different quality‐of‐service guarantees for each of these groups. Maestro's functionality maps well into these requirements, and can significantly shorten the development time of such applications. In this paper, we report on Maestro, and demonstrate its utility in implementing several multimedia and collaborative computing applications. In particular, we provide a detailed description of the implementation of IMUX , a pseudo X‐server (proxy) for collaborative computing applications that is based on Maestro. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.