A Message Bus for Local Coordination
Jörg Ott, Colin S. Perkins, Dirk Kutscher · 2002
In a variety of conferencing scenarios, a local communication channel is desirable for conference-related information exchange between co- located but otherwise independent application entities, for example those taking part in application sessions that belong to the same conference. In loosely coupled conferences such a mechanism allows for coordination of applications entities to e.g. implement synchronization between media streams or to configure entities without user interaction. It can also be used to implement tightly coupled conferences enabling a conference controller to enforce conference wide control within a end system. The local Message Bus (Mbus) provides a means to achieve the Ott, et. al. Expires January 12, 2001 [Page 1] Internet-Draft A Message Bus for Local Coordination July 2000 necessary amount of coordination between co-located conferencing applications for virtually any type of conference as postulated in a a companion requirement document[11]. The Message Bus c...