Multimedia over IP for thin clients: Building a collaborative resource-sharing prototype
Journal
Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications
Journal Volume
12
Journal Issue
3
Pages
175-183
Date Issued
2004
Author(s)
Abstract
This paper explores the issues and the techniques of enabling multimedia applications for the thin client computing. A prototype of a video communication system based on H.323 family of ITU-T recommendations is used to demonstrate the support of multimedia applications with a terminal server and thin clients such as Windows-based terminals. The studies on the network applications over thin clients are composed of two parts: (1) the collaborative client-server conference system and (2) the universal plug-in architecture. With the proposed architecture, an application of multi-user audio/video conference system is devised for illustrative purposes. The universal plug-in technique is devised to shift jobs from thin clients to a supporting server, thus reducing the computing overhead required by the clients. The processed result at the supporting server is transcoded to a pre-defined universal format and then sent back to the thin client. This plug-in architecture is implemented and empirically evaluated. © 2004 Sage Publications.
Subjects
Resource sharing; Thin client computing; Universal plug-in
Other Subjects
Internet protocol; Resource sharing; Thin client computing; Universal plug in; Computer supported cooperative work; Internet; Multimedia systems; Network protocols; Video conferencing; Visual communication; Client server computer systems
Type
journal article