Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video

The trend towards powerful workstations and high-speed
networks has enabled applications to communicate and
manipulate digital audio and video. These   are continuous
media and differ from discrete media such as text                  and
graphics in that they have stringent delay and                                       bandwidth
requirements. Neither the mechanisms used to                                 transport
ordinary data over networks nor present                                       communication
protocols are sufficient to communicate continuous                  media.
Special operating system support must also be provided to
meet   the requirements of both discrete and continuous media
in future multimedia applications.
This volume contains the proceedings of the                           Second
International Workshop on Network and Operating System
Support   for Digital Audio and Video, held in cooperation
with ACM SIGCOMM and SIGOPSat the IBM European Networking
Center in Heidelberg, Germany, in November   1991. The volume
contains 33 selected papers together with summaries of      the
workshop sessions compiled by the session chairmen.