Collaborative Load Shedding for Media-based Applications

Authors:
C. Compton and D. L. Tennenhouse

Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, pp. 496-501, May 1994.

Abstract:
The VuSystem is a software-intensive video environment developed on operating systems without real- time features. In the course of our work with this system, interesting questions have been brought up about how resources on a workstation can be best divided between applications, and what resource management features (if any) are required. This paper's main purpose is to outline a rationale for collaborative load shedding and to create an awareness within the operating system community; it also discusses some our early experiences with simple collaborative load shedding schemes.

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