Who should attend: The tutorial is intended for software developers who are designing and implementing real-time communication systems such as telecommunication systems, multimedia services, network management applications, personal communication systems, client/server management information systems, WWW servers, avionics systems, and upper-layer communication protocols.

CORBA is an emerging standard that defines a flexible model for distributed object computing. This tutorial describes the design and optimization principles, patterns, and performance of real-time CORBA Object Request Brokers (ORBs). The tutorial material is based on the forthcoming OMG real-time CORBA specification, as well as experience with the ACE ORB (TAO), which is the first real-time ORB endsystem that supports end-to-end QoS guarantees over networks and embedded system interconnects.

This talk focuses on:
 

	The design and performance of the real-time CORBA QoS programming model
	ORB endsystem architecture (which minimizes priority inversion and non-determinism)
	Portable Object Adapter (POA) optimizations (which associate client requests with servants in constant time)
	Scheduling and Events Services for adaptive QoS and static/dynamic real-time scheduling
	A highly optimized CORBA protocol engine (which implements the standard IIOP protocol using a small memory footprint)
	A/V Streaming Service (which controls and manages audio/video streams)