Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

1999-01-01

Filename

WUCS-99-24.PDF

DOI:

10.7936/K7KW5D9C

Technical Report Number

WUCS-99-24

Abstract

With wide deployment of high-speed networks such as vBNS today, video-conference applications over WANs have become increasingly feasible. MMX has proven to be a good desktop video-conference devide for local ATM networks. Now, ALX has been designed to extend MMX's video conferencing capability to IP-over-ATM WANs such as vBNS. In this report, we discuss a floor control protocol for ALX video-conference applications. We first show how an "ideal" protocol should behave to meet our requirements. Then we compare three protocols based on distributed algorithms, and a protocol based on a centralized algorithm. Based on the comparison and performance analysis, we plan to implement the protocol based on the centralized algorithm for initial test-runs. We also describe what our future work will involve.

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Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7KW5D9C

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