A DAVIC-based architecture for hypermedia applications over the Internet

This paper presents an architecture aimed at supporting distributed hypermedia applications focusing on the exchange of multimedia objects over the Internet, their processing and presentation. The model is based on the Digital Audio-Visual Council (DAVIC) proposals for interactive TV, which means that the Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group (MHEG-5) is adopted as the representation standard for multimedia objects and the Digital Storage Media Command and Control (DSM-CC) as the real time protocol for data delivery.