The Design and Implementation of an Operating System to Support Distributed Multimedia Applications：（的设计和实现一个操作系统支持分布式多媒体应用程序）.pdfVIP

1 The Design and Implementation of an Op erating System to Supp ort Distributed Multimedia Applications Ian Leslie Derek McAuley Richard Black Timothy Rosco e Paul Barham David Evers Robin Fairbairns and Eoin Hyden Abstract Supp ort for multimedia applications by general purp ose computing platforms has b een the sub ject of considerable research Much of this work is based on an evolutionary strategy in which small changes to existing systems are made The approach adopted here is to start ab initio with no backward compatibility constraints This leads to a novel structure for an op erating system The structure aims to decouple applications from one another and to provide multiplexing of all resources not just the CPU at a low level The motivation for this structure a design based on the structure and its implementation on a numb er of hardware platforms is describ ed I Introduction ENERAL purp ose multimedia computing platforms should endow text images audio and video with equal status interpreting an audio or video stream should not b e a privileged task of sp ecial functions provided by the op erating G system but one of ordinary user programs Supp ort for such pro cessing on a platform on which other user applications are running some of which may also b e pro cessing continuous media cannot b e achieved using existing op erating systems it requires