Controlling QoS in a collaborative multimedia environment
- International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA (United States)
A collaborative multimedia environment allows users to work remotely on common projects by sharing applications (e.g., CAD tools, text editors, white boards) and simultaneously communicate audiovisually. Several dedicated applications (e.g., MBone tools) exist for transmitting video, audio and data between users. Due to the fact that they have been developed for the Internet which does not provide any Quality of Service (QoS) guarantee, these applications do not or only partially support specification of QoS requirements by the user. In addition, they all come with different user interfaces. In this paper we first discuss the problems that we experienced both at the host and network levels when executing a multimedia application and varying its resource requirements. We then present the architectural details of a collaborative multimedia environment (CME) that we have been developing in order to help a user to set up and control a collaborative multimedia session.
- OSTI ID:
- 421376
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960835-; TRN: 96:006403-0038
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. IEEE international symposium on high-performance distributed computing, Syracuse, NY (United States), 6-9 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the fifth IEEE international symposium on high performance distributed computing; PB: 664 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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