5th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems Centralized versus Distributed Schemes for Videoconferencing Chenju, Korea August 28-August 30 ISBN: 0-8186-7125-4
Videoconferencing has become one of the major applications which is driving new computing and communication technologies. Solutions for the circuit switched and packet-based networks differ considerably. The H.320 ITU Standard has defined a solution for videoconferencing over N-ISDN. This standard advocates a centralized approach to multiparty conferencing based on a multipoint control unit (MCU). Various aspects of the H.320 standard are clearly reusable in packet-switched environments while others are not. In this paper we examine the differences between a centralized MCU multiparty conference approach and a distributed multiconference approach which leverages some of the capabilities of the packet-based networks. Each approach has distinct advantages and disadvantages. We discuss these and present a distributed Multimedia Multiparty Teleconferencing (MMT) system we have implemented.
Index Terms:
Videoconferencing, Multimedia, Multipoint Control Unit
Citation:
M. H. Willebeek-LeMair, Z.-Y. Shae, "Centralized versus Distributed Schemes for Videoconferencing," ftdcs, pp.0085, 5th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems, 1995 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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