report · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2009
Next Generation Integrated Environment for Collaborative Work Across Internets
Harvey B. Newman
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Abstract
We are now well-advanced in our development, prototyping and deployment of a high performance next generation Integrated Environment for Collaborative Work. The system, aimed at using the capability of ESnet and Internet2 for rapid data exchange, is based on the Virtual Room Videoconferencing System (VRVS) developed by Caltech. The VRVS system has been chosen by the Internet2 Digital Video (I2-DV) Initiative as a preferred foundation for the development of advanced video, audio and multimedia collaborative applications by the Internet2 community. Today, the system supports high-end, broadcast-quality interactivity, while enabling a wide variety of clients (Mbone, H.323) to participate in the same conference by running different standard protocols in different contexts with different bandwidth connection limitations, has a fully Web-integrated user interface, developers and administrative APIs, a widely scalable video network topology based on both multicast domains and unicast tunnels, and demonstrated multiplatform support. This has led to its rapidly expanding production use for national and international scientific collaborations in more than 60 countries. We are also in the process of creating a 'testbed video network' and developing the necessary middleware to support a set of new and essential requirements for rapid data exchange, and a high level of interactivity in large-scale scientific collaborations. These include a set of tunable, scalable differentiated network services adapted to each of the data streams associated with a large number of collaborative sessions, policy-based and network state-based resource scheduling, authentication, and optional encryption to maintain confidentiality of inter-personal communications. High performance testbed video networks will be established in ESnet and Internet2 to test and tune the implementation, using a few target application-sets.
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Newman, H. B. (2009). Next Generation Integrated Environment for Collaborative Work Across Internets. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). https://doi.org/10.2172/948080
Newman, Harvey B. “Next Generation Integrated Environment for Collaborative Work Across Internets.” OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), 2009, https://doi.org/10.2172/948080.
Newman, Harvey B. 2009. “Next Generation Integrated Environment for Collaborative Work Across Internets.” OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). https://doi.org/10.2172/948080.
Newman, H.B. (2009) ‘Next Generation Integrated Environment for Collaborative Work Across Internets’, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). Available at: https://doi.org/10.2172/948080.
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