Time-triggered and message-triggered object framework and global time-based synchronization for real-time multimedia streaming

The goal of distributed multimedia applications is to provide timely high-quality multimedia services to users on a network. Typical distributed multimedia applications use multimedia streaming that continuously processes and transports time-based media such as audio and video on a network. Inter-media and inter-location synchronizations as well as intra-media synchronization should be supported to facilitate high-quality reliable multimedia services. In this paper, we present an approach to develop distributed multimedia applications by using a real-time multimedia object model named MMStream TMO, a specialized form of TMO, and a synchronization scheme for real-time streaming based on MMStream TMO and global time.