Multimedia partial order transport architecture: design and implementation

These latest years, technological improvements in Computer and Telecommunication areas led to the emergence of a new kind of distributed multimedia and co-operative applications, whose features and requirements are both multiple and diversified. In order to tackle these needs, two major architectural approaches are currently pursued, one of them arguing for an improvement of the application software, the other one promoting a more sophisticated network support. Following this last approach, this paper aims at providing implementation results performed around the design of a multimedia Transport architecture based on the partial order connection (POC) concept. Design principles of a multimedia partial order Transport connection (MM-POC) are first introduced. Main mechanisms of the associated protocol are then detailed and implementation investigations using the STREAM concept are exposed. Experimentation results are finally given.