THE FUTURE OF MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - IPTV Frameworks

Oscar Martinez Bonastre, Lucas Lopez, Antonio Peñalver

2008

Abstract

As distributed systems scale up and are deployed into increasingly sensitive settings, demand is rising for a new generation of communications middleware in support of application-level computing. Thus, knowledge of distributed systems and communications middleware has become essential in today's computing environment. Additionally, multimedia distributed systems are confronting a wide range of challenges associated with limits of the prevailing service oriented architectures and platforms. In this position paper, authors seek that the future of multimedia distributed systems will pass through new techniques to stream data at high rates to groups of recipients, e.g., collaboration systems, computer gaming, embedded control systems and other media delivery systems. In order to be more specific with promising applications for the future of multimedia distributed systems, authors have selected a hot topic like Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). Authors present Tele-ed IPTV, i.e., an author’s tool they have developed to distribute multimedia content to TV sets. This position paper argues that future of multimedia distributed systems will pass through IPTV frameworks which interconnect systems that previously have been relatively incompatible.

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Martinez Bonastre O., Lopez L. and Peñalver A. (2008). THE FUTURE OF MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - IPTV Frameworks . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-51-7, pages 229-232. DOI: 10.5220/0001900002290232


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@conference{icsoft08,
author={Oscar Martinez Bonastre and Lucas Lopez and Antonio Peñalver},
title={THE FUTURE OF MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - IPTV Frameworks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2008},
pages={229-232},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001900002290232},
isbn={978-989-8111-51-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - THE FUTURE OF MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS - IPTV Frameworks
SN - 978-989-8111-51-7
AU - Martinez Bonastre O.
AU - Lopez L.
AU - Peñalver A.
PY - 2008
SP - 229
EP - 232
DO - 10.5220/0001900002290232