Deployment issues of a VoIP conferencing system in a virtual conferencing environment

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn Part F129026, Issue , 2003, Pages 150-159

  Prasad, R Venkatesha ^a   Hurni, Richard ^b   Jamadagni, H S ^a   Shankar, H N ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c PES UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Conference server; Real time audio; Simultaneous speakers; SIP; VCE; VoIP

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET TELEPHONY; PACKET SWITCHING; SCALABILITY; SERVERS; SYSTEM-IN-PACKAGE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AUDIO CONFERENCING; CIRCUIT-SWITCHED NETWORKS; CONFERENCE SERVERS; CONFERENCING SYSTEMS; REAL-TIME AUDIO; SERVICE FRAMEWORK; SIMULTANEOUS SPEAKERS; VOIP;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 61849157163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1008653.1008680     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. L Aguilar et al., "Architecture for a Multimedia Teleconferencing System", in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM, Aug 1986, pp. 126-136.
2. Carsten Bormann, Joerg Ott et al., "Simple Conference Control Protocol", Internet Draft, Dec. 1996.
3. M. Decina and V. Trecordi, "Voice over Internet Protocol and Human Assisted E-Commerce", IEEE Comm. Magazine, Sept. 1999, pp. 64-67.
4. Eckehard Doerry, "An Empirical Comparison of Copresent and Technologically-mediated Interaction based on Communicative Breakdown", Phd Thesis, Graduate School of the University of Oregon, 1995.
5. H. P. Dommel and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, "Floor Control for Multimedia Conferencing and Collaboration", J. Multimedia Systems, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1997, pp. 23-38.
6. Amitava Dutta-Roy, "Virtual Meetings with desktop conferencing", IEEE Spectrum, July 1998, pp. 47-56.
7. M. Handley and V. Jacobson, "SDP: Session Description Protocol", RFC 2327, IETF, April 1998.
8. M. Handley, J. Crowcroft et al., "Very large conferences on the Internet: The Internet multimedia conferencing architecture", Journal of Computer Networks, vol. 31, No. 3, Feb 1999, pp. 191-204.
9. ITU-T Rec. H.323, "Packet based Multimedia Communications Systems", vol. 2, 1998.
10. P. Koskelainen, H. Schulzrinne and X. Wu, "A SIP-based Conference Control Framework", NOSSDAV'02, May 2002, pp. 53-61.
11. R Venkatesha Prasad et al., "Control Protocol for VoIP Audio Conferencing Support", International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, Mu-Ju, South Korea, Feb 2001, pp. 419-424.
12. R Venkatesha Prasad et al., "Automatic Addition and Deletion of Clients in VoIP Conferencing", 6th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, July 2001, Hammamet, Tunisia, pp. 386-390.
13. R Venkatesha Prasad, H S Jamadagni, Abjijeet, et al "Comparison of Voice Activity Detection Algorithms", 7th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications. July 2002, Sicily, Italy, pp. 530-535.
14. R. Venkatesha Prasad, Richard Hurni, H S Jamadagni, "A Scalable Distributed VoIP Conferencing using SIP", Proc. of the 8th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Antalya, Turkey, June 2003.
15. R Venkatesha Prasad, H S Jamadagni and H N Shankar, "On Problem of Specifying Number of Floors in a Voice Only Conference", To appear in IEEE ITRE 2003.
16. R. Venkatesha Prasad, Richard Hurni, H S Jamadagni, "A Proposal for Distributed Conferencing on SIP using Conference Servers", To appear in the Proc. of MMNS 2003, Belfast, UK, September 2003.
17. R. Venkatesha Prasad, H.S. Jamadagni, J. Kuri, R.S. Varchas, "A Distributed VoIP Conferencing Support Using Loudness Number", Tech. Rep. TR-CEDT-TE-03-01
18. M. Radenkovic et al, "Scaleable and Adaptable Audio Service for Supporting Collaborative Work and Entertainment over the Internet", SSGRR 2002, L'Aquila, Italy, Jan. 2002.
19. M. Radenkovic, C. Greenhalgh, S. Benford, "Deployment Issues for Multi-User Audio Support in CVEs", ACM VRST 2002, Nov. 2002, pp. 179-185.
20. Srinivas Ramanathan, P. Venkata Rangan, Harrick M. Vin, "Designing Communication Architectures for Interorganizational Multimedia Collaboration", Journal of Organizational Computing, 2 (3&4), pp.277-302, 1992.
21. A. B. Roach, " Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-Specific Event Notification", RFC 3265, IETF, June 2002.
22. J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne et al., "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261, IETF, June 2002.
23. J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne, "Models for Multy Party Conferencing in SIP", Internet Draft, IETF, July 2002.
24. H. Schulzrinne et al., "RTP: A transport protocol for realtime applications", RFC 1889, IETF, Jan 1996.
25. Lisa R. Silverman, "Coming of Age: Conferencing Solutions Cut Corporate Costs", White Paper, www.imcca.org/wpcomingofage.asp
26. Kundan Singh, Gautam Nair and Henning Schulzrinne, "Centralized Conferencing using SIP", Proceedings of the 2nd IP-Telephony Workshop (IPTel), April 2001.
27. D. Thaler, M. Handley and D. Estrin, "The Internet Multicast Address Allocation Architecture", RFC 2908, IETF, Sept. 2000.