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The continuous media applications have an implied temporal dimension, i.e. they are presented at a particular rate for a particular length of time and if the required rate of presentation is not met the integrity of these media is destroyed. We present a set of language constructs suitable for the definition of the required QoS and a new real-time environment that provides low-level support to these constructs. The emphasis of the proposed strategy is given on deterministic guarantees and can be considered as a next step for the design and the implementation of predictable continuous media applications over a network.
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Mourlas, C. (2000). Predictability and Resource Management in Distributed Multimedia Presentations. In: Rolim, J. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPDPS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1800. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45591-4_103
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