Automatic deployment of a communication mesh for synchronous e-learning activities (bibtex)

by Pelayo Nuño, Juan Carlos Granda, Daniel Fernando García and Francisco José Suárez

Abstract:

Synchronous e-learning platforms are frequently used to train the personnel of large corporations. Usually, these corporations are geographically dispersed in multiple sites, so efficient transport of multimedia streams during an e-learning activity is essential. In order to interconnect the groups of participants, it is necessary to deploy a communication mesh. If the number of sites is high, non-automatic deployment of the communication mesh is complex, cumbersome and prone to errors, delaying the startup of e-learning activities. In this paper, an automatic deployment technique based on a centralized server is proposed. This technique continuously updates the composition of the communication mesh, and involves only those sites where there are active participants in the e-learning activity, modifying the mesh topology in function of the joining and leaving of participants. Tests show that the proposed automatic deployment technique makes use of the available bandwidth efficiently. 2010 IEEE.

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Reference:

Automatic deployment of a communication mesh for synchronous e-learning activities (Pelayo Nuño, Juan Carlos Granda, Daniel Fernando García and Francisco José Suárez), In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC), 2010.

Bibtex Entry:

@InProceedings{nuno2010icsnc,
  author      = {Pelayo Nuño and Juan Carlos Granda and Daniel Fernando García and Francisco José Suárez},
  title       = {Automatic deployment of a communication mesh for synchronous e-learning activities},
  booktitle   = {Proceedings of the 5\textsuperscript{th} International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC)},
  pages       = {213--220},
  abstract    = {Synchronous e-learning platforms are frequently used to train the personnel of large corporations. Usually, these corporations are geographically dispersed in multiple sites, so efficient transport of multimedia streams during an e-learning activity is essential. In order to interconnect the groups of participants, it is necessary to deploy a communication mesh. If the number of sites is high, non-automatic deployment of the communication mesh is complex, cumbersome and prone to errors, delaying the startup of e-learning activities. In this paper, an automatic deployment technique based on a centralized server is proposed. This technique continuously updates the composition of the communication mesh, and involves only those sites where there are active participants in the e-learning activity, modifying the mesh topology in function of the joining and leaving of participants. Tests show that the proposed automatic deployment technique makes use of the available bandwidth efficiently. 2010 {IEEE}.},
  author+an   = {2=highlight},
  date        = {2010},
  year        = {2010},
  doi         = {10.1109/ICSNC.2010.40},
  editora     = {{IARIA}},
  editoratype = {collaborator},
  isbn        = {978-0-7695-4145-7},
  keywords    = {Automatic deployment, Available bandwidth, Bandwidth, Centralized server, Communication, Communication mesh, E-learning, Mesh topologies, Multicast emulation, Multicasting, Multimedia stream, Rendezvouz point, Synchronous e-learning},
  url         = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79952075285&doi=10.1109%2fICSNC.2010.40&partnerID=40&md5=871ead4748778ee53c290feae6e51e77},
  urldate     = {2010-08-22},
  type        = {research},
  address    = {Niza, Francia},
  eventdate  = {2010-08-22/2010-08-27},  
  comunicacion = {Oral},  
}