Floor Control for Activity Coordination in Networked Multimedia Applications

Abstract

Collaboration in networked multimedia applications requires means to coordinate the activities of a dynamically aggregating set of distributed users, working with various multimedia data on heterogeneous platforms. A floor denotes a control right over a shared resource within a collaborative workspace. Floor control, similar to concurrency control for databases, is gradually being integrated into shared applications to orchestrate the access and dynamic process of joint work on shared data, supporting or substituting a human conference chair. This paper presents a comprehensive view on floor control, analyzing requirements for protocols with respect to the variety of shared tools, describing an architecture to meet these requirements, and finally placing our work in the context of previous efforts.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA461198

Entities

People

  • Hans-peter Dommel
  • J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

Organizations

  • University of California, Santa Cruz

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Automatic
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Science
  • Media
  • Multimedia
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Software Development
  • Teleconferencing
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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