OCTOPUS: an adaptive group communication environment for multimedia application

Author

Zhang, C.H. ; Chin, T.K. ; Koh, K.Y. ; Ong, G.M. ; Suthon, S. ; Peng, C.H. ; Pung, H.K.

Author_Institution

Multimedia Syst. Res. Lab., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

145

Lastpage

150

Abstract

OCTOPUS is designed to provide a middleware level support for audio and video services in the Internet. To provide an adaptive group communication framework, the OCTOPUS architecture is designed to segregate the control and management of connection, membership, quality of service and streams. Existing middleware designed for multimedia communication lacks support for dynamic swapping of protocol stacks and QoS support. We describe the OCTOPUS architecture and the design and development of key components. These key components ease the development effort of multimedia streaming applications for group communication and provide adaptive communication through the provision of dynamic protocol swapping and QoS support in these applications.

Keywords

Internet; middleware; multimedia communication; protocols; quality of service; telecommunication computing; visual communication; Internet; OCTOPUS architecture; QoS support; adaptive communication; audio services; dynamic protocol swapping; group communication; middleware; multimedia communication; protocol stacks; quality of service; video services; Adaptive control; Communication system control; Middleware; Multimedia communication; Programmable control; Protocols; Quality management; Quality of service; Streaming media; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 2002. ICON 2002. 10th IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7533-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICON.2002.1033302

Filename

1033302