IMPLEMENTATION OF TINA-BASED HIGH-QUALITY MULTIMEDIA NETWORKS

Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture (TINA) is aimin g at reusability and interoperability of software by use of location/f ault transparency of objects based on distributed processing and objec t orientation technologies. Currently many attempts to realize TINA co mmercial systems are ongoing all over the world. As the first step of those attempts, the TINA Trial (TIT) is scheduled to be realized in 19 98. To achieve the quality to be used for the commercial systems, qual ity study not only of software but also of hardware platforms becomes key. This paper intends to clarify the requirements of TINA-based high -quality multimedia networks and possible solutions by considering the TIT system which the authors are developing. The requirements from th e perspective of quality are effective usage of system processing capa bility by effective multiprocessing without any processing overhead an d improvement of system stability by fault management achieving autono mous system reconfiguration. This paper shows the desirability of appl ying stream-oriented data-driven processor to the TINA system so as to satisfy these requirements. (C) 1998 Scripta Technica.