Design and Implementation of a Network Application Architecture for Thin Clients

This paper explores the issues and the techniques of enabling multimedia applications for the thin client computing. A prototype of a video communication system based on H.323 family of ITU-T recommendations is developed to demonstrate the support of multimedia applications with a terminal server and thin clients such as Windows based terminals. Our studies on the network applications over thin clients are composed of two parts: (1) the collaborative multi-user audio/video conference system and (2) the universal plug-in architecture. With the proposed architecture, an application of multi-user audio/video conference system is devised for illustrative purposes. The collaborative multi-user audio/video conference system leverages the bene¯t of sharing common components within multiple conference terminals as well as increases their extensibility and ease of use. As validated by our experimental results, multimedia applications can be e±ciently supported in an IP-based thin-client comp...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: COMPSAC
• Authors: Chia-Chen Kuo, Ping Ting, Ming-Syan Chen, Jeng-Chun Chen
• Keywords: Collaborative Multi-user Audio/video, COMPSAC 2002, Multimedia Applications, Software Engineering, Universal Plug-ins