This is the Final Report for the Rome Laboratory sponsored project entitled, "Distributed Multimedia and Imaging over a High Speed ATM Testbed" and covers an 18-month period from October 1994 to March 1996.
The objective of this research was to:
create a distributed multimedia collaboration environment using, as much as possible, existing software tools;
implement and experiment distributed collaborative imaging and multimedia applications on Washington University's high speed ATM testbed. The proposed applications are computational optical sectioning microscopy (COSM) and battle field simulation using distributed interactive simulation (DIS) protocols;
design and experimentally evaluate several operating system and protocol control mechanisms that are crucial in supporting the distributed multimedia computing environment on a high speed ATM testbed.
Considerable success was achieved in the areas of distributed multimedia collaboration, battle field simulation using DIS and operating system and protocol mechanisms for efficient support of distributed multimedia applications. In the area of COSM our investigations uncovered drawbacks of the current machine architectures that made it difficult to achieve the needed performance improvements through the proposed parallelization.
We are excited about the opportunities presented by the results of our work with video conferencing, remote collaboration and operating system and protocol efficiency improvements. All of these in combination, provide an environment for productive work and research by collaborators in areas, such as DIS, Neuroscience, Radiology and COSM, which require high throughput applications. Even though the immediate results of our COSM application were disappointing, they did yield the result that given the right processing environment, a productive collaboration environment is possible.
Multimedia Conferencing and Collaboration
Imaging and Multimedia Applications
DIS
COSM
Protocols and Operating Systems Mechanisms for Efficient Multimedia Applications
References
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Prepared by Vykky Klingenberg:
vykky@arl.wustl.edu
Last Modified October 23, 1996.