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Improving support for multimedia system experimentation and deployment

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Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS 1999)

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New applications with increasingly complex complex requirements present significant challenges to existing operating systems, motivating the design and implementation of new system abilities. Multimedia applications are excellent driving problems because they exhibit stringent temporal constraints and non-trivial interactions among applications within and across machine boundaries. This paper describes work done under several projects conducted by the author in the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center at the University of Kansas which had the need for real-time software in common. This common set of requirements motivated the development of real-time extensions to Linux capable of scheduling events with microsecond accuracy, and the creation of a facility called the Data Stream Kernel Interface capable of gathering performance data with sub-microsecond precision. This paper provides an overview of these new system abilities, how we have used them, and discusses their relevance to the design, implementation, and evaluation of multimedia systems.

This work was supported in part by grants from Sprint Corporation.

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  1. Information and Telecommunication Technology Center Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Kansas, 66045, Lawrence, KS, USA

    Douglas Niehaus

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José Rolim Frank Mueller Albert Y. Zomaya Fikret Ercal Stephan Olariu Binoy Ravindran Jan Gustafsson Hiroaki Takada Ron Olsson Laxmikant V. Kale Pete Beckman Matthew Haines Hossam ElGindy Denis Caromel Serge Chaumette Geoffrey Fox Yi Pan Keqin Li Tao Yang G. Chiola G. Conte L. V. Mancini Domenique Méry Beverly Sanders Devesh Bhatt Viktor Prasanna

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Niehaus, D. (1999). Improving support for multimedia system experimentation and deployment. In: Rolim, J., et al. Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPPS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0097930

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