Operating system resource reservation for real-time and multimedia applications
Clifford W. Mercer, E. N. Mootaz Elnozahy, Ragunathan Rajkumar · 1997
Increases in processor speeds and the availability of audio and video devices for personal computers have encouraged the development of interactive multimedia applications for teleconferencing and digital audio/video presentation among others. These applications have stringent timing constraints, and traditional operating systems are not well suited to satisfying such constraints. On the other hand, hard real-time systems that can meet these constraints are typically static and inflexible. This dissertation