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Multimedia Applications for Parallel and Distributed Systems

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This Chapter deals with multimedia applications in parallel and distributed systems. After a brief introduction to the subject, several issues are discussed. They include at first an overall explanation of MPEG, the most popular digital audio-video standard. Next, the crucial networking topic is treated with particular attention paid to ATM networks. Later the CORBA standard and Java language are presented as the most accredited software environments for multimedia development in a typical heterogenous scenario Finally, the last section presents the most diffused multimedia applications: the Video on Demand, the Digital Video Broadcasting, and the Multimedia Conferencing.

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  1. National Research Council of Italy, IRSIP, Via P. Castellino 111, Naples, Italy

    Giuseppe De Pietro

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  1. Instytut Informatyki, Politechnika Poznanska, ul. Piotrowo 3a, 60-965, Poznań, Poland

    Jacek Błażewicz

  2. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität Clausthal, Julius Albert Str. 4, D-78678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

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  3. Institut Fourier, LMC, 100 Rue des Mathematiques, BP 53X, F-38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

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  4. Institut National Polytechniques de Grenoble, 46, avenue Felix Viallet, F-38031, Grenoble Cedex, France

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De Pietro, G. (2000). Multimedia Applications for Parallel and Distributed Systems. In: Błażewicz, J., Ecker, K., Plateau, B., Trystram, D. (eds) Handbook on Parallel and Distributed Processing. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04303-5_12

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