@CONFERENCE\{IMM2002-0784,
    author       = "R. Sharp and E. Todirica",
    title        = "Best-effort Support for a Virtual Seminar Room",
    year         = "2002",
    keywords     = "Teleconferencing, Distributed systems, Operating system performance",
    booktitle    = "{ACM} Multimedia '02, Juan les Pins, France",
    volume       = "",
    series       = "",
    editor       = "",
    publisher    = "",
    organization = "",
    address      = "",
    url          = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/784-full.html",
    abstract     = "This paper describes the {RTMM} Virtual Seminar Room, an interactive
  distributed multimedia application based on a platform with a simple
  middleware architecture, using best effort scheduling and a best
  effort network service.  Emphasis has been placed on achieving low
  latency in all parts of the software system, so that as large a
  margin as possible is available for the transfer of data through the
  network.  This approach gives good user acceptability for the transfer
  of audio and video over distances of several hundred kilometers
  within the high-bandwidth Danish Research Network.  The design of
  central parts of the system is presented, and the performance
  offered by this approach is discussed."
}