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Multimedia Over IP for Thin Clients: Building a Collaborative Resource-Sharing Prototype

Electrical Engineering Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Ping Ting

Electrical Engineering Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Wei-Guang Teng

Electrical Engineering Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Peter M.C. Chen

Philips Research East Asia, Philips Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Ming-Syan Chen

Electrical Engineering Department, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, mschen{at}cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw

Jeng-Chun Chen

Philips Research East Asia, Philips Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

This paper explores the issues and the techniques of enabling multimedia applications for the thin client computing. A prototype of a video communication system based on H.323 family of ITU-T recommendations is used to demonstrate the support of multimedia applications with a terminal server and thin clients such as Windows-based terminals. The studies on the network applications over thin clients are composed of two parts: (1) the collaborative client-server conference system and (2) the universal plug-in architecture. With the proposed architecture, an application of multi-user audio/video conference system is devised for illustrative purposes. The universal plug-in technique is devised to shift jobs from thin clients to a supporting server, thus reducing the computing overhead required by the clients. The processed result at the supporting server is transcoded to a pre-defined universal format and then sent back to the thin client. This plug-in architecture is implemented and empirically evaluated.

Key Words: thin client computing • resource sharing • universal plug-in

Concurrent Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 3, 175-183 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X04046195


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