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Open media service architecture for advanced collaboration environments

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Advanced collaboration environments are extensively utilized for distance learning, e-science, and other distributed global collaboration events. In such environments, high-quality and seamless media services play an important role in improving the quality of user experience to participants. In this paper, to support high-quality media-based services, we design open media service architecture for advanced collaboration environments, by combining the open interface for state-of-the-art media tools, the performance monitoring tools for devices and networks, and application-level adaptation schemes for media streaming. By implementing the proposed architecture on top of an open-source Access Grid (AG) collaboration toolkit, we verify that high-quality collaboration among several collaboration sites can be effectively realized over a multicast-enabled network testbed with improved media quality experience.

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Notes

  1. In open media service architecture, we attempt to adopt this algorithm for service capability negotiation.

  2. In this paper, the QoS profile negotiation extending [21] is not fully covered yet. Instead, in the prototype implementation to be explained later, we utilize a simplified and restrictive method in choosing the media format by reflecting the selection of users.

  3. This software is available from http://nm.gist.ac.kr/agdv/. Note that the software can only support basic inter-working with AGTk (i.e., Profile 1).

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We would like to thank several members of KISTI supercomputing center, ACE research team of GIST Networked Media Laboratory, AG development team of Argonne National Laboratory, and anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions. This research was supported by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Korea, under the Information Technology Research Center support program supervised by the Institute of Information Technology Advancement. (grant number IITA-2009-C1090-0902-0006).

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Han, S.W., Park, JW. & Kim, J. Open media service architecture for advanced collaboration environments. Multimed Tools Appl 44, 133–160 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-009-0276-x

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