Improving network efficiency in real-time groupware with general message compression

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 119-128

  Gutwin, Carl ^a   Fedak, Christopher ^a   Watson, Mark ^a   Dyck, Jeff ^a   Bell, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Groupware performance; Message compression; Network delay

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; XML;

MESSAGE COMPRESSION; MESSAGE STREAMS; NETWORK DELAY;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 34547150063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180875.1180894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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