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Concurrent home multimedia conferencing platform using a service component architecture

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Recent advances in audio/video processing, communication protocols, and Internet technologies have allowed for high-quality multimedia conferencing services at relatively low cost in the digital home. This paper presents a high concurrent and ubiquitous home multimedia conferencing platform using a service component architecture. For the proposed architecture, we focus on the design of a home multimedia conferencing platform framework, as well as home conferencing components, session management for media signaling, load balancing, and concurrent control for conferencing process management. We also present an efficient network address translation and a firewall traversal schema. High concurrency of the proposed architecture is achieved by coordinated distributed home conferencing services and concurrent control for conferencing process management. The performance of the proposed home multimedia conferencing platform has been evaluated, and the results show that the proposed architecture greatly improves the concurrency.

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Acknowledgments

This research is supported by the National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China under Grant No. 2011CB302506, 2012CB315802; National Key Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2012BAH94F02); National High-tech R&D Program of China (863 Program) under Grant No. 2013AA102301; National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61132001); Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No. NCET-11-0592); Project of New Generation Broad band Wireless Network under Grant No. 2014ZX03006003;

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    Cheng Bo, Hu Xiaoxiao, Zhang Shicheng & Chen Junliang

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Bo, C., Xiaoxiao, H., Shicheng, Z. et al. Concurrent home multimedia conferencing platform using a service component architecture. Multimed Tools Appl 74, 10847–10872 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-014-2210-0

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