Paper Info
Title
Universal Internet conference information system
Abstract
The Internet Conferencing Information System (ICIS) described in this paper is developed to provide timely information about ongoing computer-supported conferences throughout the Internet. ICIS is composed of three major components: Information Server (S), Conference Announcer (A), and Conference Querier (Q). S stores conference information, A sends conference information to S, while Q retrieves the current conference information from S and makes it available to the user application. The system is designed to be reliable, efficient, and flexible. Reliability is achieved by running multiple well-known Ss throughout the Internet. Efficiency is achieved by connecting the servers via a minimum-cost spanning tree of TCP connections. Flexibility is achieved by allowing each A or Q to communicate with any server using either UDP or TCP protocols. In addition, ICIS protocols are universal in the sense that they are not geared towards any specific conferencing system.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1016/0020-0255(95)00300-2
Inf. Sci.
Keywords
Field
DocType
information system,spanning tree
Information system,File server,Teleconference,Computer science,Server,Computer network,Transmission Control Protocol,Spanning tree,Transmission protocol,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
91
1-2
0020-0255
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab19720.10
I. Stoica2214061710.11
Florin Sultan3142.09