Dissemination of executable objects. Archive and annotation. Development and testing with a real testbed environment. In addition to serving as a generic toolkit to enable new and interesting RM applications, the toolkit is also intended as a vehicle for research into protocol issues in RM such as data naming, loss recovery, local recovery, congestion control, and data consistency. The toolkit is event-based and has C and Tcl APIs.
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MediaBoard and Active Objects MediaBoard is a distributed, interactive, collaboration application that provides a shared workspace for remote participants. We are currently generalizing SRM into a protocol framework that can suit the diverse needs of a variety of reliable-multicast applications through specialization and MediaBoard has served as the chief application for this design. The scheme uses a distributed algorithm to establish consensus among all participants in the conference on the sharing of the session bandwidth. The scheme uses a voting mechanism to establish consensus. It achieves scalability through voter sampling that results in a low convergence time to consensus with high confidence bounds.