Raising the cub - distributed realtime support in Tigger

Abstract

We present a proposal for an architecture supporting distributed objects exhibiting soft real-time behaviour. This support is aimed directly at the eld of distributed multimedia applications. Since the architecture is designed in a modular fashion, we expect that this architecture can be easily extended to other application areas with similar demands such as distributed video games, a major future market. The design consists of a metalevel approach with four individual levels o ering a clean separation between baselevel objects implementing application functionality, on one side and metalevel objects, responsible for control of behaviour of baselevel objects, on the other side.