Distributed Process Networks Using Half FIFO Queues in CORBA

Process networks are networks of sequential processes connected by channels behaving like FIFO queues. These are used in signal and image processing applications that need to run in bounded memory for infinitely long periods of time dealing with possibly infinite streams of data. This paper is about a distributed implementation of this computation model. We present the implementation of a distributed process network by using distributed FIFOs to build the distributed application. The platform used to support this is the CORBA middleware