Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking

A Hierarchical CPU Scheduler for Multimedia Operating Systems^*

Pawan Goyal, Xingang Guo and Harrick M. Vin,     Distributed Multimedia Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Taylor Hall 2.124, Austin, Texas 78712-1188, Telephone: [phone], Fax: [phone], URL: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dmcl. E-mail address: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]

Abstract

The need for supporting variety of hard and soft real-time, as well as best effort applications in a multimedia computing environment requires an operating system framework that: (1) enables different schedulers to be employed for different application classes, and (2) provides protection between the various ...