Multimedia teleconferencing control gateway

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68).by Leo Shang-hua Chang.M.S

A Software Platform for Distributed Multimedia Applications

The paper discusses the functionality that a platform for distributed multimedia applications should provide. Five platforms - Touring Machine, Beteus, Lakes, Medusa and IMA - are presented and evaluated. The paper then introduces a new platform that is geared towards service provision in larger networks. In this platform, application and media processing are logically and per default geographically separated. Applications reside in application pools inside the network and control sets of multimedia terminals in the periphery. The platform is built on top of CORBA, and is thus defined as a set of IDL interfaces. The platform supports application development with high level programming interfaces, and can be further enhanced with tool-kits for special application classes. A tool-kit for teleconferencing applications is presented at the end of the paper

Touring Machine: A Software Platform for Distributed Multimedia Applications

The goal of the Touring Machine project is to provide a reliable and extensible software platform that supports independently-developed distributed multimedia applications. The project includes an experimental testbed composed of a network of desktop video and audio devices controlled via user workstations. Touring Machine is more than a research testbed; it is the basis of the communications tools used daily by 100 users in two Bellcore locations 50 miles apart. It supports multimedia conferencing and information services as well as point-to-point communications. This paper describes Touring Machine, its system model and its software architecture. 1 Introduction With the technological advances in computing and communication networks in recent years, we have seen the emergence of a variety of distributed multimedia applications[7, 22]. Examples of such applications include Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)[11], medical applications[9], multimedia conferencing[19, 21], and dis..