Blair, Gordon and Coulson, Geoff and García, Francisco and Hutchison, David and Shepherd, Doug (1992) Towards new transport services to support distributed multimedia applications. In: 4th IEEE ComSoc International Workshop on Multimedia Communications, MULTIMEDIA 1992, 1992-04-011992-04-04.
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This paper describes the contribution of Lancaster University to the definition of new transport services for supporting distributed multimedia applications. The paper first reports on a set of requirements that we have identified from a comprehensive applications survey. It goes on to describe the design and implementation of an experimental multimedia support infrastructure which attempts to meet these requirements. This infrastructure consists of a distributed systems platform built on top of a continuous media transport service and protocol. It includes a new set of services, called orchestration services, which are designed to assist with the synchronisation requirements of multimedia applications.