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Research on Reliable Communication in Real-Time Collaborative Designing Systems

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Distributed Communities on the Web (DCW 2002)

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Real-time collaborative designing systems allow users to view and design the same document from geographically distributed sites connected by web. In these systems, each action should be transferred to other sites correctly, timely and orderly. While a lot of researches focus mainly on providing reliable network environment to support collaborative works, we propose a new kind of reliable communication architecture for collaborative group. This architecture is based on UDP protocol for end-to-end transmission, and adopts a new Site-based Reliable Communication Protocol (SRCP) that depends on collaborative site itself to choose reliable communication channel and provide reliable transmission. Each site checks the connection status and chooses reliable path to transfer actions dynamically. Lost actions can be detected and retransferred faster when comparing to other architectures. The protocol and algorithms are given in detail in this paper.

This project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Xueyi Wang, Jiajun Bu & Chun Chen

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  2. Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128 succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Peter G. Kropf

  3. Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Ulm, James Frank Ring 0-27, 89069, Ulm, Germany

    Peter Schulthess

  4. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1W5, Canada

    Jacob Slonim

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Wang, X., Bu, J., Chen, C. (2002). Research on Reliable Communication in Real-Time Collaborative Designing Systems. In: Plaice, J., Kropf, P.G., Schulthess, P., Slonim, J. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2468. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36261-4_6

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