DCON An IMS enabled architecture for Distributed CONferencing A. Amirante, T. Castaldi, L. Miniero and S. P. Romano University of Napoli “Federico II” IPTComm 2007, New York, July 20 th
DCON architecture Distributed Conferencing (DCON) Explicitely recalls XCON (Centralized Conferencing) Orchestrates the operation of a set of XCON “clouds” Overlay network interconnecting the clouds Intra-focus communication Still based on XCON protocols Inter-focus communication Exploits Server-to-Server (XMPP) Requirements Focus discovery Initialization information & spreading of conference events Setup and managing of distributed conferences Transparent dispatching of natively centralized protocols among the involved conferencing clouds
DCON implementation Gateway MeetMe & FCS Manager Dispatcher Presence Manager Memory S2S manager DCON Focus_1 Gateway MeetMe & FCS Manager Dispatcher Presence Manager Memory S2S manager DCON Focus_2 User A_1 User B_1 User D User B XMPP s2s channel Pfx1=867 Asterisk XCON enabled Wildfire DCON enabled Asterisk XCON enabled C C’ RTP(Audio) User A User C RTP(Video) D D’ Wildfire DCON enabled Pfx2=857
Demo setup Client side Spark (enhanced) Server side Asterisk (enhanced) Wildfire (enhanced)
The client in action