A Framework for Multimedia Communication in a General-Purpose Distributed System

Abstract

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Operating system issues for continuous media

“…One simple model for continuous media requirements is the linear bounded arrival process (LBAP), originally developed by Cruz [32,33] and suggested by Anderson [5,27,[34][35][36] Example of workahead function [5] like required CPU seconds or number of bytes to be read from disk could be used. For scheduling, we can distinguish between critical and workahead processes.…”