Panel3 - References

Panel3: Multicasting & Real-Time Applications and the Future of the Web

Table of Contents

• Books
• General MBONE/Multicasting Information
• Relevant Protocols
• Multicasting Software Tools
• Multicasting and the Web
• Java and Multicasting
• Social Interactions and Multicasting
• Voice Communications over the Internet
• Miscellaneous Related Developments

Books

V. Kumar. MBone: Interactive Multimedia on the Internet, New Riders Publishing, Indianapolis Indiana, 1996. ISBN 1-56205-397-3. (U.S.) Library of Congress QA76.76.I59K85

K. Savetz, N. Randall, and Y. Lepage. MBONE: Multicasting Tomorrow's Internet IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., Foster City California, 1996. ISBN 1-56884-723-8.

General MBONE/Multicasting Information

• MBONE mail list archive:
  • Entire collection
  • Jan. -- June 1994
  • July -- Dec. 1993
  • Jan. -- June 1993
  • 1992
• Archive for rem-conf mailing list
• MBONE (Multicast Backbone) an introductory paper by Jean Bunn (Geneva University, 1994)
• MBONE FAQ WWW page (also here) and MBONE FAQ
• UCLA MBONE FAQ (includes campus use policy)
• MBONE access providers (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)
• MIWeb (MBONE Information Web; extensive assorted information)

Relevant Protocols

• Store-and-multicast message delivery protocol
• Bibliography of proposals for multicast transport protocols (J.P. Knight, Loughborough University of Technology)
• Adaptive Multicast Data Distribution Protocol, for tranmission of large files by multicast (University of Toronto, 1996)
• ITU H.G.*, H.* and T.* standards (International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium)
• MPEG, CCITT H.261, JPEG Stanford Portable Video Research Group
• MPEG-(2,4), H.263 (Telenor)
• Reliable Multicast Protocol (NASA, West Virginia University)

Multicasting Software Tools

• MBONE software repositories
  • Australia
  • Japan
  • Norway
  • Germany
• Survey of desktop videoconferencing products (North Carolina State University)
• For the PC
  • NVAT, a vat-equivalent for Windows 95 & NT
  • Xing Technology Corporation (StreanWorks)
• For UNIX/X
  • sd, the original MBONE session directory tool (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
  • sdr, a session directory tool (University College, London)
  • vat, visual audio tool (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
  • rat, a robust audio tool (University College, London)
  • vic, video conferencing tool (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
  • wb a shared whiteboard (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
  • mcm 2.0, a multicasting tool for distributing HTML to Web clients via a reflector
  • Information about IVS, the INRIA Videoconferencing System (Thierry Turletti, INRIA)
  • MBONE VCR (recording/playback tools, University of Mannheim)
  • MMC - Multi Media Collaboration (Hewlett-Packard, Technical University of Berlin/HP collaboration)
  • mlisten, gathers MBone membership information (Georgia Tech.)
  • mrouted monitoring tools
  • Mbone monitoring software, perl interface

Multicasting and the Web

• Web Gateway to "mrinfo"
• Håkon Lie's paper on multicasting on the Web, Chicago WWW '94
• Touvet's multicasting Mosaic work
• Donnelley's paper "WWW Page Distribution Using Multicast" also here
• cciShare, a multicasting Mosaic application, a precusor to the webcast tool used at the Darmstadt Web Conference (Ed Burns, NCSA)
• Shared Mosaic, a multicasting extension to NCSA Mosaic (Vinay Kumar, EIT, 1995)
• MBONE Web-based scheduling tools
  • Jon Knight's experimental MBONE Booking system, part 1 and part 2
  • Mockup for SuperJANET video conferencing booking system
  • SD gateway to WWW and alternative site (Bill Fenner, 1996)
  • Internet Broadcast Schedule, sd-like calendar of events (Philipp Hoschka, INRIA)
  • The MBONE Online Diary, a calendar of MBONE events (George Michaelson, Australia)
  • The MBone Session Agenda a calendar of events (Antonio Calegari, Italy)
  • MBone Broadcast schedule (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley; North American mirror to MBone Session Agenda)

Java and Multicasting

• Java Multiuser Environment, a prototype Java applet that creates a shared whiteboard using multicasting (Peter Parnes, 1996)

Social Interactions and Multicasting

• Documents outline the social roles of various participants, created for the Third International World-Wide Web Conference in Darmstadt, Germany.

Voice Communications over the Internet

• ACTA page (concerning petition of telecommunications firms to ban Internet voice communications)
• Internet Phone, a PC product for two-party voice communications over the net (not yet emploging multicasting)
• NetPhone, a Macintosh product for two-party voice communications over the net
• RealAudio (streaming Internet audio for Mac/PC/UNIX, multicasting not currently employed)

Miscellaneous Related Developments

• Cornell University's CU-SeeMe Project
  • Cornell CU-SeeMe Welcome Page
  • CU-SeeMe information (Digital Jungle)
  • CU-SeeMe video conferencing experiments (Borre Ludvigsen, Norway)
  • NASA TV coverage via CU-SeeMe
• Moosebone Dutch-based virtual network similar to but independent of the MBONE
• NERO Project, educational applications of the MBONE (University of Oregon)
• XEROX OpenField multicasting audio experiment
• MICE Media-on-Demand Server
• MERCI (successor to MICE project)