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Conference Papers Year : 2017

USE Together, a WebRTC-Based Solution for Multi-user Presence Desktop

Abstract

Ubiquitous is one of the essential features of what should be the desktop of the future. In practice, this concept covers several issues related to multi-users collaboration, remote applications control or remote display and secure access over IP networks. With its standards and capabilities, WebRTC provides a new vision of real-time communications services that can raise these challenges. In this paper we present a WebRTC-based middleware solution for real-time multi-users remote collaboration. It allows a full desktop setup where everyone can see what other users are doing and where they position themselves in the shared workspace. In contrast to standard WebRTC's Peer-to-Peer architecture, our system supports a synchronous communication model through a star topology. It also improves network bandwidth efficiency by using hardware video compression when the GPU resource is available , though assuring a very low latency streaming. In this way, we can maintain awareness and sense of presence without changing the usual practices of the users in front of a desktop. Several use cases are provided and a comparison of advantages and drawbacks of this solution is also presented to guide users in applying this technology under real-life conditions.
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hal-01658337 , version 1 (10-02-2018)

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Laurent Lucas, Hervé Deleau, Benjamin Battin, Julien Lehuraux. USE Together, a WebRTC-Based Solution for Multi-user Presence Desktop. International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering (CDVE), 2017, Majorque, Spain. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-66805-5_29⟩. ⟨hal-01658337⟩

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