Mcast: A Communication Engine for Multicast Multimedia Distribution Networking

• Main Authors: Su, Yuh-Loong, 蘇郁隴
• Other Authors: Huang Chuang-Ming
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32772812128183923479

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 資訊工程學系 === 86 === The Internet explosion is driving the need for group multimedia applications,which provide multiple users with contented multimedia services, e.g., videodistribution and distance learning. The provision of group applications ismostly based on multicastcommunications, which can reduce the consumption of network resources. However, the characteristics of multicast and the delivery of multiple media streams induce many new problems in the design of networking architecture and system, and media synchronization controls. Thus, a communication engine, which is called Mcast, that can achievesmooth multimedia presentations with the temporal relation preservation amongmultiple media streams is proposed and developed. In this thesis, major issues involved in the design andimplementation of Mcast, such as multicast communication architecture andsynchronization control schemes for multiple-streams presentations, are discussedand resolved. According to the proposed communication architecture and synchronization control schemes, Mcast can be the middleware of multicast multimedia applications to smoothly present continuous and static media.