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VConnect

• Distributed Collaboration with Audio/Video
  Conferencing

Team Priyanka Warade Kalpana Chatnani Nazmi Can
Anik Anoop Jaishankar
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http//www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nanik/vConnect.htm
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Outline

• Main Idea and Functionalities
• High Level Architecture
• Use-Case Diagram
• Sequence Diagram
• Deliverables
• System Features
• Implementation Plans
• Demo Sequences
• QA

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Main Idea and Functionalities

• Main purpose is to provide a collaborative
  environment for users to interact with each other
• Interactions will be via
• Video Conferencing
• Audio Conferencing
• Text Messaging
• White Board (bonus credit)
• File Exchange(bonus credit)

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High Level Architecture
Figure 1 The Main Architecture
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High Level Architecture contd

• Web Server Authentication of Clients, Querying
  of the Database, Management of Friends List
• Database Stores the following information
• Username
• Password
• Status
• Friends
• IP
• Region Information
• Server Location Information

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High Level Architecture contd

• Session Management Server
• Manage connections between clients
• Access to Video and Audio Servers for real-time
  streaming
• Quality of Service management
• Video Server Video Stream Processing (mixing,
  compression, encoding and decoding)
• Audio Server Audio Stream Processing (mixing,
  compression, encoding and decoding)

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High Level Architecture contd
Figure 2 - The Sequence of Connection Between
Clients
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Use-Case Diagram
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Sequence Diagram Audio/Video Conf.
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Deliverables
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System Features

• Location-Independent architecture (Applet-Based)
• QoS Enabled
• Fault Tolerance by primary-backup approach
• Availability achieved by multi-broker
  architecture
• Audio/Video Processing done on different servers
  to achieve modularity and fast processing
• Scalability achieved by replication of servers
  and regions

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Implementation Plans

• Development J2EE and JMF API
• Database MySQL, JDBC Database Access
• Modelling UML Diagramer
• Language Java
• RAD Tool Eclipse

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Demo Sequences

• Web Service and Authentication Server
• Session Management Server functionality
  implementation
• Text based chat implementation
• Audio Server
• Video Server
• White boarding
• File Exchange

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Q A

• Thank you, any questions?

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