Flexible communication support for CSCW applications

Author

Miranda, Hugo ; Rodrigues, Luis

Author_Institution

Lisbon Univ., Portugal

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

338

Lastpage

342

Abstract

Modern computer-supported cooperative work applications (CSCW) supporting same-time/different-place interaction are required to open several communication channels. Each of these channels has its own quality of service (QoS) and is implemented by a specific protocol stack. Typically, these channels need to be synchronized but inter-stack dependencies are hard to express with current communication architectures. The paper proposes a novel approach to the development of communication software supporting a style of micro-protocol composition that satisfies the requirements imposed by CSCW applications

Keywords

computer communications software; groupware; protocols; quality of service; telecommunication channels; CSCW; communication channels; communication software; computer-supported cooperative work; flexible communication support; inter-stack dependencies; micro-protocol composition; protocol stack; quality of service; synchronization; Application software; Bandwidth; Collaborative work; Communication system control; Computer crashes; Computer networks; Local area networks; Loss measurement; Protocols; Quality of service;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium, 1999 and International Workshop on Groupware

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0268-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPIRE.1999.796612

Filename

796612