Infopipes: An abstraction for multimedia streaming

Black, Andrew P.; Huang, Jie; Köster, Rainer; Walpole, Jonathan; Pu, Calton

doi:10.1007/s005300200062

Cited by 39 publications

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“…Available distributed multimedia middleware solutions like NMM [2], NIST II [10] and Infopipe [11] are especially designed for distributed media processing, but only NMM and NIST II support the concept of a distributed flow graph. However, the concept of parallel binding and pipelined parallel binding are only supported by NMM and not by NIST II.…”

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Stream Processing on GPUs Using Distributed Multimedia Middleware

Repplinger

Slusallek

2010

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

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Abstract. Available GPUs provide increasingly more processing power especially for multimedia and digital signal processing. Despite the tremendous progress in hardware and thus processing power, there are and always will be applications that require using multiple GPUs either running inside the same machine or distributed in the network due to computational intensive processing algorithms. Existing solutions for developing applications for GPUs still require a lot of hand-optimization when using multiple GPUs inside the same machine and provide in general no support for using remote GPUs distributed in the network. In this paper we address this problem and show that an open distributed multimedia middleware, like the Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM), is able (1) to seamlessly integrate processing components using GPUs while completely hiding GPU specific issues from the application developer, (2) to transparently combine processing components using GPUs or CPUs, and (3) to transparently use local and remote GPUs for distributed processing.

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Stream Processing on GPUs Using Distributed Multimedia Middleware

Repplinger

Slusallek

2010

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics

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“…Work around multimedia applications has led to several componentbased frameworks such as DirectShow (Microsoft) [6] JMF (Sun) [13] and PREMO (ISO) [7], easing the development of multimedia applications. Following this vein, the advantages of component-based technologies have motivated several research works in order to bring adaptivity to multimedia applications [3,15,14] but very few of them considering run-time reconfiguration. This feature has been addressed with different approaches:…”

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Designing Self-adaptive Multimedia Applications Through Hierarchical Reconfiguration

Layaida

Hagimont

2005

Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

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Abstract. Distributed multimedia applications are very sensitive to resource variations. An attractive way for dealing with dynamic resource variations consists in making applications adaptive, and even self-adaptive. The objective is to grant applications the ability to observe themselves and their environment, to detect significant changes and to adjust their behavior accordingly. This issue has been the subject of several works; however the proposed solutions lack flexibility and a high-level support that eases the development of adaptive applications. This paper presents PLASMA, a component-based framework for building multimedia applications. PLASMA relies on a hierarchical composition and reconfiguration model which provides the expected support. The experimental evaluation shows that adaptation can be achieved with a very low overhead, while significantly improving QoS of multimedia applications as well as resource usage on mobile equipments.

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“…For example, the Berkeley Active Service Framework [1] uses an agent-based architecture that allows a client application to explicitly start an adaptation process on a given gateway. With a similar goal, Infopipes [2] defines an application-level framework that allows configuring adaptation processes by assembling separately defined components. These proposals bring more flexibility to the configuration of applications.…”

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confidence: 99%