Design and performance evaluation of a Java-based multicast browser tool

Author

McKinley, Philip K. ; Barrios, Robel R. ; Malenfant, Aaron M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

314

Lastpage

322

Abstract

This paper presents a case study in the use of reliable multicasting in Web-based multi-party applications. To carry out this study, we have designed and implemented WEBCLASS, a multicast browser tool written in Java. In WEBCLASS, all the actions of a “master” Web browser are mimicked on a set of client browsers. Monitoring of the master browser is performed by a set of threads, which use a reliable multicast protocol to disseminate state information and Web resources to programs that control the client browsers. The architecture and operation of the main components of WEBCLASS are described, and experimental results of a performance study are presented

Keywords

Internet; Java; client-server systems; computer aided instruction; groupware; multicast communication; online front-ends; transport protocols; Java-based multicast browser tool; WEBCLASS; Web-based multi-party applications; client browsers; performance evaluation; Application software; Communication system control; Computer networks; Computer science; Distributed databases; Java; Monitoring; Multicast communication; Negative feedback; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

ISSN

1063-6927

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0222-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.1999.776533

Filename

776533