Towards an Architecture for Audio/Video Conferencing in Distributed Brokering Systems.

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the deployment of distributed brokering systems in the context of audio/video conferencing. We expand upon our earlier work in this area, and eliminate certain drawbacks that were present in that approach. Our new work provides substantial performance improvements. Also, we outline our support for managing legacy applications within the system. We based our investigations on the NaradaBrokering system, which provides support for peer-to-peer (P2P), centralized and distributed interactions. We include experimental results, from our performance tests, which substantiate our claim that systems such as NaradaBrokering can be deployed in the context of real-time audio/video conferencing, while supporting large heterogeneous client configurations.