COULSON, G and Blair, Gordon and ROBIN, P (1994) Micro-kernel support for continuous media in distributed systems. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 26 (10). pp. 1323-1341.
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Currently, popular operating systems are unable to support the end-to-end real-time requirements of distributed continuous media. Furthermore, the integration of continuous media communications software into such systems poses significant challenges. This paper describes a design for distributed multimedia support in a micro-kernel operating system environment which provides the necessary soft real-time support while simultaneously running conventional applications. Our approach is to extend existing micro-kernel abstractions to include QoS configurability, connection-oriented communications and real-time threads. The design uses the following key concepts: the notion of a flow to represent QoS controlled communication between two application threads, a close integration of communications and thread scheduling and the use of a split-level scheduling architecture with kernel-and user-level threads. Implementation work is not yet completed and therefore performance figures are not available. However, the paper shows how our design qualitatively improves performance over existing micro-kernel facilities by reducing the number of protection-domain crossings and context switches incurred.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Computer Networks and ISDN Systems |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MULTIMEDIA ; OPERATING SYSTEMS ; THREAD SCHEDULING ; REAL-TIME SYSTEMS ; QUALITY OF SERVICE ; ENHANCED TRANSPORT SERVICES |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > School of Computing & Communications |
| ID Code: | 52612 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 12 Mar 2012 13:59 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 20:07 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/52612 |
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