Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) : Basic Introduction

This paper gives a basic introduction to the design of the Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM). NMM is a multimedia middleware and considers the network as an integral part and enables the intelligent use of devices distributed across a network. Therefore, it can be used as enabling technology for locally operating multimedia applications, but more importantly for all kinds of networked and distributed multimedia systems - spanning from embedded and mobile systems, to PCs, to large-scale computing clusters.