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COST 237 Workshop on Multimedia Services and Network Services

COST237 1994: Multimedia Transport and Teleservices pp 185–198Cite as

Efficient support for multiparty communication

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Communication of multimedia data among multiple parties can be costly in terms of use of network resources if guaranteed quality of service is requested. We believe, however, that knowledge of the functional characteristics of real applications can be helpful to devise new mechanisms to support isochronous communication efficiently. In this paper we follow this approach to introduce a new communication abstraction, called the Half-Duplex Real-Time channel. The new abstraction can reduce the amount of resources needed by real-time protocols to offer guaranteed performance networking by exploiting the interaction patterns typical of multimedia applications such as tele-conferencing and tele-education.

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  1. Clemens Szyperski

    Present address: Oberon Microsystems Inc., Basel, Switzerland

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  1. The Tenet Group, International Computer Science Institute, 1947 Center Street, Suite 600, 94704, Berkeley, CA

    Clemens Szyperski

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125, Napoli, Italy

    Giorgio Ventre

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Szyperski, C., Ventre, G. (1994). Efficient support for multiparty communication. In: Hutchison, D., Danthine, A., Leopold, H., Coulson, G. (eds) Multimedia Transport and Teleservices. COST237 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 882. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58759-4_35

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