A distributed protocol for conferencing.
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Title
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A distributed protocol for conferencing.
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Identifier
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AAI9304664
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identifier
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9304664
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Creator
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Friedman, Eluzor.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Chaim Ziegler
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Date
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1992
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Computer Science
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Abstract
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With faster workstations connected to faster networks, distributed computer networks are being used for more than just the sharing of data. They are being viewed as communication systems that allow users to communicate and cooperatively work with each other. Included in these communication systems is the ability to integrate multiple varied information types, such as data, voice and video. More recently, these communication systems allow users to create conference connections to allow multiple users to cooperatively work together simultaneously utilizing a multiplicity of information types. This is referred to as multimedia conferencing. This thesis concentrates on conference connection management and presents a distributed conferencing protocol that sets up, maintains and terminates a conference connection among multiple users.;The principal contribution of the conferencing protocol is the concept of distributed conference connection management. The distributed connection management scheme used by the conferencing protocol views a conference connection as a logical ring of conference participants. A participant of an ongoing conference must only keep track of its predecessor and its successor in the logical ring of conference participants. This enables efficient distributed connection management.;A detailed description of the conferencing protocol is presented. The thesis defines the conferencing protocol services provided to the user, details the CPDUs used by the protocol, describes the protocol mechanisms, presents a formal protocol specification in terms of a finite state machine and defines the interface to the services provided by the lower layer. An actual implementation the protocol is described.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
