Radhika Malpani and Lawrence A. Rowe

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-97-955

, 1997

The development of MBone videoconferencing tools has led to a large number of seminars being broadcast over the internet. Most MBone seminars have little remote participation. One reason might be the absence of good floor control mechanisms. This paper describes a tool we developed, called the Questionboard, that implements floor control to facilitate question asking in large-scale MBone seminars. The qb protocol is described including the mechanisms used for reliable transmission of data and the floor control and crash recovery protocols.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Malpani:CSD-97-955,
    Author= {Malpani, Radhika and Rowe, Lawrence A.},
    Title= {Floor Control for Large-Scale MBone Seminars},
    Year= {1997},
    Month= {Apr},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1997/5893.html},
    Number= {UCB/CSD-97-955},
    Abstract= {The development of MBone videoconferencing tools has led to a large number of seminars being broadcast over the internet. Most MBone seminars have little remote participation. One reason might be the absence of good floor control mechanisms. This paper describes a tool we developed, called the Questionboard, that implements floor control to facilitate question asking in large-scale MBone seminars. The qb protocol is described including the mechanisms used for reliable transmission of data and the floor control and crash recovery protocols.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Report
%A Malpani, Radhika 
%A Rowe, Lawrence A. 
%T Floor Control for Large-Scale MBone Seminars
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 1997
%@ UCB/CSD-97-955
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1997/5893.html
%F Malpani:CSD-97-955