Clifford W. Mercer
ABSTRACT
This paper briefly describes a resource reservation operating system abstraction that supports real-time multimedia applications alongside non-real-time applications. This approach facilitates predictable behavior in applications while still maintaining the flexibility required by multimedia applications in a dynamic system. The accompanying video tape shows how to reserve processor capacity for multimedia applications and how to control processor usage even when real-time and non-real-time applications compete for access to system servers.
Supplemental Material
- D. L. Black et al. Microkernel Operating System Architecture and Mach. In Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Micro-kernels and Other Kernel Architectures, pages 11-30, April 1992. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- C. W. Mercer, S. Savage, and H. Tokuda. Processor Capacity Reserves: Operating System Support for Multimedia Applications. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), May 1994.Google ScholarCross Ref
- H. Tokuda, T. Nakajima, and P. Rao. Real-Time Mach: Toward a Predictable Real-Time System. In Proceedings of USENIX Mach Workshop, pages 73- 82, October 1990.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Operating system support for multimedia applications
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