Multimedia conferencing system and multicasting

摘要

The multimedia conferencing system is an important tool for Computer supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and also one of the basic techniques supporting team work in the Concurrent Engineering. In this paper the architecture and function modules of the reported multimedi a conferencing system are described. Then in order to reduce the network bandwidth required by the conferencing system, two methods for sending the conferencing data by using multicasting are discussed.