Towards support for heterogeneous multimedia communications

Author

Wittmann, Ralph ; Zitterbart, Martina

Author_Institution

Inst. of Oper. Syst. & Comput. Networks, Tech. Univ. Braunschweig, Germany

fYear

1997

fDate

29-31 Oct 1997

Firstpage

336

Lastpage

341

Abstract

Today, we are faced with a huge variety of multimedia and collaborative applications, networks and end-systems. The resulting heterogeneous environment imposes new challenges on transport systems. To meet the requirements of heterogeneous receivers in multi-point communication, a communication framework based on a so-called group mediator is outlined. Group mediators are located within the network and provide multicast support for CSCW and multimedia applications. QoS filters are discussed as group mediator modules. Initial work on signalling filter functions is presented

Keywords

filters; groupware; multimedia communication; telecommunication signalling; CSCW; collaborative applications; group mediators; heterogeneous multimedia communications; heterogeneous receivers; multi-point communication; multicast support; service quality filters; signalling filter functions; transport systems; Application software; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer networks; Error correction; Information filtering; Information filters; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Operating systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1997., Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of

Conference_Location

Tunis

ISSN

1071-0485

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8153-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1997.644747

Filename

644747