Issues in networking and data management of distributed multimedia systems
P. Bruce Berra, C.-Y.R. Chen, Arif Ghafoor, Thomas D. C. Little · 2003
The authors provide an overall assessment of the current state-of-the art in multimedia information technology, the future directions and the engineering challenges faced by the designers and researchers working in this area. They describe how the newly emerging networking and high performance storage technologies can provide unique opportunities for building interesting multimedia applications, which were unconceivable previously.>