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A Formal Description Technique Supporting Expression of Quality of Service and Media Synchronisation

Bowman, Howard and Blair, Lynne and Blair, Gordon S. and Chetwynd, Amanda G. (1994) A Formal Description Technique Supporting Expression of Quality of Service and Media Synchronisation. In: Hutchison, D. and Danthine, A. and Leopold, H. and Coulson, G., eds. Multimedia Transport and Teleservices International COST 237 Workshop. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 145-167. ISBN 978-3-540-58759-0. E-ISBN 978-3-540-49065-4. (doi:10.1007/3-540-58759-4_33) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:21165)

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Abstract

Formal description techniques have been applied successfully to the fields of communications and distributed systems. We argue, however, that the recent emergence of multimedia computing will have a significant impact on this work. In particular, existing formal description techniques do not satisfactorily model the real-time behaviour exhibited by distributed multimedia systems. This paper considers the impact of multimedia on formal description techniques and proposes an approach in which functional behaviour is expressed in the language LOTOS and non-functional quality of service is expressed in a real-time temporal logic. This dual language approach to formal description is demonstrated through a number of multimedia examples, culminating in the specification of a lip-synchronisation algorithm.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/3-540-58759-4_33
Uncontrolled keywords: Quality of Service, LOTOS, Real-Time Temporal Logic, Formal Specification
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited: 12 Aug 2009 19:41 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:59 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/21165 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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