Distributing broadband multimedia systems using CORBA

This paper proposes that the Channel Provider, a generic communication platform developed by the RACE II project EuroBridge, could be integrated with CORBA, thus enabling the ORB to provide real-time bindings and QoS control and negotiation between objects for the transfer of multimedia data. The requirements placed on CORBA by multimedia applications are addressed, and the EuroBridge Channel Provider's (CP) ability to satisfy these requirements is outlined. The complementary nature of these architectures is discussed by investigating the relationships between them and the impact that manipulation of the OMA object model has on the CP control interface. Finally, a description of the process of integrating the EuroBridge Channel Provider and Orbix, a full implementation of CORBA, is given, and conclusions drawn.