Synchronization Scheme in Multimedia and Hypermedia Application Development

Synchronization of multimedia is one of the important issuein multimedia communication. The synchronization agencytriggers one of the three synchronization mechanisms, pointsynchronization or real-time continuous or adaptivesynchronization in order to adapt to the run-time and lifetimepresentation requirements of an application.Multimedia communication deals with transfer of data overthe network among multimedia systems. These systemsinclude multiple sources of various media that are eitherspatially or temporally related to create compositemultimedia documents. Spatial composition links variousmultimedia streams into a single entity. Temporalcomposition creates multimedia presentations by arrangingthe multimedia streams according to their temporalrelationship, and the relationship is either loosely or tightlycoupled