%0 Conference Paper %1 wil96b %A Wilde, Erik %A Nanduri, Murali %A Plattner, Bernhard %B Proceedings of the European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques %C Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium %D 1996 %E Delogne, Paul %E Hutchison, David %E Macq, Beno\^ıt %E Quisquater, Jean-Jacques %K imported %P 409-425 %T A Transport-Independent Component for a Group and Session Management Service in Group Communications Platforms %X Group communications is an area of research which has received a lot of attention recently. This paper focuses on a model and the architecture of a system which supports group communications by providing group and session management functionality. This system is an extension of directory services which are used with unicast communications. New functionality is needed for the dynamics of group communications (members of a connection may change over the lifetime of the connection) and increased complexity of relations. A model is described which defines six object types which represent the relevant objects. Users and groups represent real world users and their relations. Sessions and flows describe ongoing group communications. Flow templates and certificates provide mechanisms for management and security issues. The architecture presented in this paper is transport-independent, ie it can be used within different group communication platforms. A short sketch of the implementation is given in the last section.

@inproceedings{wil96b, abstract = {Group communications is an area of research which has received a lot of attention recently. This paper focuses on a model and the architecture of a system which supports group communications by providing group and session management functionality. This system is an extension of directory services which are used with unicast communications. New functionality is needed for the dynamics of group communications (members of a connection may change over the lifetime of the connection) and increased complexity of relations. A model is described which defines six object types which represent the relevant objects. Users and groups represent real world users and their relations. Sessions and flows describe ongoing group communications. Flow templates and certificates provide mechanisms for management and security issues. The architecture presented in this paper is transport-independent, ie it can be used within different group communication platforms. A short sketch of the implementation is given in the last section.}, added-at = {2009-01-14T00:43:43.000+0100}, address = {Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium}, author = {Wilde, Erik and Nanduri, Murali and Plattner, Bernhard}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2404076056601f4b2159e34ad3c103b29/dret}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques}, crossref = {ecmast96}, description = {dret'd bibliography}, editor = {Delogne, Paul and Hutchison, David and Macq, Beno\^\i{}t and Quisquater, Jean-Jacques}, index = {GMS, GUA, GAP}, interhash = {63e04d4a847b2e60b8538572f83e88f1}, intrahash = {404076056601f4b2159e34ad3c103b29}, keywords = {imported}, month = May, pages = {409-425}, src = {EW: WWW}, timestamp = {2009-01-14T00:43:51.000+0100}, title = {A Transport-Independent Component for a Group and Session Management Service in Group Communications Platforms}, uri = {http://dret.net/netdret/publications#wil96b}, year = 1996 }