The software architecture and interprocess communications of IRI: an Internet-based interactive distance learning system

Author

Abdel-Wahab, H. ; Mary, K. ; Youssef, A. ; Stoica, E. ; Overstreet, C.M. ; Wild, C. ; Gupta, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA, USA

fYear

1996

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

9

Abstract

Discusses the software architecture, interprocess communication and the reference implementation of the Interactive Remote Instruction (IRI) system for distance learning. IRI is an Internet-based system which integrates continuous multimedia, shared applications and a variety of multi-user collaborative utilities. Internet multicasting is used by IRI for group management and data sharing, UDP (Unix domain protocol) multicasting is used for audio and video streams, while a reliable multicasting protocol (RMP) is used by XTV, the data sharing engine of IRI. The system is both scalable and expandable. It is scalable through the use of multicasting for interprocess communication. It is expandable due to its partitioning into a set of autonomous but cooperating components. The interaction among components is specified by a set of messages and the functions needed to send and receive these messages

Keywords

Internet; Unix; computer aided instruction; groupware; interactive systems; multimedia communication; software engineering; transport protocols; IRI; Interactive Remote Instruction system; Internet-based interactive distance learning system; UDP multicasting; Unix domain protocol; XTV data sharing engine; audio streams; autonomous cooperating components; continuous multimedia; group management; interprocess communications; messages; multi-user collaborative utilities; reference implementation; reliable multicasting protocol; scalable expandable system; shared applications; software architecture; video streams; Application software; Collaboration; Computer aided instruction; Internet; Multicast protocols; Multimedia systems; Search engines; Software architecture; Streaming media; Video sharing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1996. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on

Conference_Location

Stanford, CA

ISSN

1080-1383

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7446-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.1996.555030

Filename

555030