We describe a high-quality collaborative environment that uses High-Definition (HD) video
to achieve near realistic perception of a remote site. The capture part, consisting of a HD …

A synchronous e-learning platform constitutes an effective tool to implement training
programs for human resources in large corporations. These organizations are usually widely …

Using internet for media-based real-time collaboration has become widespread activity. In
this paper, we present a framework called CoUniverse, designed for building realtime user …

Latency-sensitive data distribution and media streaming is a part of many network-centric
applications. Based on our previous practical experiences with interactive high-quality …

Providing secure, extensible, pervasive and easy to implement collaborative environment for
medical applications poses significant challenge for stateof-the-art computer systems and …

Currently, support for digital media is one of the fastest growing requirements of the Internet
as demand transitions from services designed to support primarily text and images to those …

This thesis deals with issues of collaborative environments orchestration. We show that
manual orchestration of collaborative environments is not only extremely cumbersome but …

In this thesis, we focus our work on two classes of multimedia data distribution and
processing problems: synchronous or interactive, which require as low latency as possible …

Introduction: Enabled by current high-speed networks, high-definition (HD) video
transmissions have become an essential tool for many applications. The HD video brings …

Videoconferencing has emerged as a popular method of remote communication. The design
of a videoconferencing environment strongly influences the communication efficiency and …