06-11-2012, 11:36 AM
MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING
ABSTRACT
Managing packets in distributed multimedia environment involves coordinating and synchronizing multiple datastreams. The Ensembles Coordination Program provides the required coordination, reduces delay using path selection and message rebroadcasting, and allows the end application to manage the synchronization within the streams.
One immediate advantage of this mechanism (ECP) is the reduction of data rebroadcasts, because nodes with more than one adjacent nodes must send the data and only to those adjacent nodes.