Abstract: In distributed applications like teleconferences, a group of multiple processes are cooperating, where messages exchanged among the processes are required to be causally delivered. The processes are exchanging kinds of multimedia objects. The multimedia objects are longer than traditional messages and are structured. In this paper, we discuss new types of causally precedent relations among multimedia objects transmitted in the network. We discuss a protocol to causally deliver multimedia objects in a group of processes. We also show the evaluation of the protocol.
Citation:
Kenichi Shimamura, Katsuya Tanaka, Makoto Takizawa, "Group Communication of Multimedia Objects," icdcsw, pp.0357, 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW '01), 2001