Distributed multimedia information systems-imaging and networking issues

Distributed multimedia information systems (DMIS) are the emerging technology which provide its users with the facility to exchange compound documents comprising of text, images, graphics and sound. They mainly consist of clusters of workstations linked via networks. These systems cater for store-and-forward and/or real-time information. Recent developments in distributed computing and applications oriented toward image processing require high speed networks to transfer large amounts of data with minimum delay. This paper reviews some high speed networks and some image compression strategies for coping with the large amount of data.