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Materialising a new architecture for a distributed MCU in the Cloud

Authors:

Pedro Rodríguez,

Álvaro Alonso,

Joaquín Salvachúa,

Javier CerviñoAuthors Info & Claims

Computer Standards & Interfaces, Volume 44, Issue C

Pages 234 - 242

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csi.2015.09.004

Published: 01 February 2016 Publication History

Abstract

New technologies are making videoconferencing more ubiquitous than ever. This imposes a big challenge for scaling software MCUs, the traditional videoconferencing servers. We propose, implement and test an architecture for a distributed MCU designed to be deployed in a Cloud Computing environment. The main design idea is to break monolithic MCUs into more simple parts: broadcasters. These broadcasters can be deployed independently on the fly. This achieves a higher deployment granularity and flexibility. We describe the control architecture that allows this distribution and prove the viability of the system with a fully developed implementation. We propose a distributed architecture for video conferencing servers (MCUs).The MCU is divided into simple parts that broadcast streams, OneToManys.We describe and evaluate the new control architecture that allows distributed deployment.This solution provides improved scalability and deployment granularity.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11042-018-6460-0
El Hamzaoui ABensaid HEn-Nouaary ABerrado ABakkoury ZBouchon-Meunier BRamdani M(2018)A New Signaling Topology for Multiparty Web Real-time Video Conference NetworksProceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications10.1145/3289402.3289517(1-6)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3289402.3289517
Petrangeli SPauwels Dvan der Hooft JWauters TDe Turck FSlowack JCesar PZink MMurray N(2018)Improving quality and scalability of webRTC video collaboration applicationsProceedings of the 9th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference10.1145/3204949.3208109(533-536)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3204949.3208109

Materialising a new architecture for a distributed MCU in the Cloud
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  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles

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Computer Standards & Interfaces Volume 44, Issue C

February 2016

289 pages

ISSN:0920-5489

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Petrangeli SPauwels DVan Der Hooft J?Iak MSlowack JWauters TDe Turck F(2019)A scalable WebRTC-based framework for remote video collaboration applicationsMultimedia Tools and Applications10.1007/s11042-018-6460-078:6(7419-7452)Online publication date: 17-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11042-018-6460-0
El Hamzaoui ABensaid HEn-Nouaary ABerrado ABakkoury ZBouchon-Meunier BRamdani M(2018)A New Signaling Topology for Multiparty Web Real-time Video Conference NetworksProceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications10.1145/3289402.3289517(1-6)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3289402.3289517
Petrangeli SPauwels Dvan der Hooft JWauters TDe Turck FSlowack JCesar PZink MMurray N(2018)Improving quality and scalability of webRTC video collaboration applicationsProceedings of the 9th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference10.1145/3204949.3208109(533-536)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3204949.3208109

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