Article
Infopipes: an Abstraction for Multimedia Streaming
Multimedia Systems Journal
Sponsor
This work was partially supported by DARPA/ITO under the Information Technology Expeditions, Ubiquitous Computing, Quorum, and PCES programs, by NSF Grant CCR-9988440, by the Murdock Trust, and by Intel.
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
4-1-2002
Subjects
- Multimedia systems - Design,
- Streaming technology (Telecommunications),
- Adaptive computing systems
Disciplines
Abstract
To simplify the task of building distributed streaming applications, we propose a new abstraction for information flow – Infopipes. Infopipes make information flow primary, not an auxiliary mechanism that is hidden away. Systems are built by connecting predefined component Infopipes such as sources, sinks, buffers, filters, broadcasting pipes, and multiplexing pipes. The goal of Infopipes is not to hide communication, like an RPC system, but to reify it: to represent communication explicitly as objects that the program can interrogate and manipulate. Moreover, these objects represent communication in application-level terms, not in terms of network or process implementation.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10531
Citation Information
Andrew P. Black, Huang Jie, Rainer Koster, Jonathan Walpole, et al.. "Infopipes: an Abstraction for Multimedia Streaming" Multimedia Systems Journal (2002) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/andrew_black/18/
An Oregon Graduate Institute School of Science and Engineering Technical Report (Number CSE 02-001). This is the author's version of an article that was subsequently published in Multimedia Systems Journal, vol. 8, no. 5 (2002). The definitive version may be found at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s005300200062. DOI: 10.1007/s005300200062