FINAL REPORT - Appendices
RE 4007, MECCANO
University College London
TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS PROGRAMME
Research
Author(s)
Peter
T Kirstein
Roy
Bennett
FINAL REPORT - Appendices
RE 4007, MECCANO
University College London
TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS PROGRAMME
Research
Author(s)
Peter
T Kirstein
Roy
Bennett
Table of Content
Appendix A…………………………………………………………………………... 1
Appendix B……………………………………….……………...………………….. 15
Appendix C..……………………………………………………………….…..……. 35
Appendix A
Cover pages of
deliverables
Project
Number: Telematics for Research 4007 Project
Title: Multimedia Education and Conferencing Collaboration
over ATM
Networks and Others (MECCANO)
Title of
Deliverable: The MECCANO Internet
Multimedia Conferencing Architecture Deliverable
ID: R
3.1 Produced by
Workpackage: 3 Contractual
Date of Delivery: May 31, 1999 Author(s): Editor: Peter T Kirstein, University College London Contributors: Igor Bokun, ACC; Carsten Bormann, UB/TZI; Tarik
Cicic, UiO; Peter Kirstein, UCL; Colin
Krawchuck, HPLB; Lambros Lambrinos, UCL; Martin
Mauve, UM; Jörg Ott, TELES; Luc Ottavj, INRIA; Colin Perkins, UCL; Andreas
Rozek, RUS; Klaus Stuhlmueller, UEN; Thierry Turletti, INRIA. Abstract: This
document provides an overview of the Architecture for multimedia
conferencing on the Internet used in the MECCANO project. The protocols
mentioned are all specified elsewhere as RFCs, internet-drafts, or ITU
recommendations. Each of these specifications gives details of the
protocol itself, how it works and what it does. This document attempts to
provide the reader with an overview of how the components fit together and
of some of the assumptions made, as well as some statement of direction
for those components still in a nascent stage. Parts of
this document are strongly based on a draft provided for the Multiparty
Multimedia Session Control (MMUSIC) working group of the Internet
Engineering Task Force. Nevertheless it covers a number of areas not
tackled in that draft - or even relevant to the IETF. It is designed to be
a guide to what we are trying to address in the MECCANO project. Keyword
list: Architecture, Multimedia Conferencing, Mbone, Security.
Project
Number: Telematics for Research 4007
Project Title: Multimedia Education and Conferencing Collaboration
Over
ATM Networks and Others (MECCANO)
Deliverable Type: PU
Title of
Deliverable: Final report on the usability of the MECCANO tools and other
components.
Deliverable ID: R3.3
Produced by
Workpackage: 3
Contractual Date of
Delivery: May 31, 2000
Author(s): Editor: Colin Krawchuck, HPLB
Contributors: Roy Bennett, UCL; Tarik Cicic, UiO; Radoslaw
Ruchala, ACC
Abstract:
The MECCANO project built on the results of the MERCI project and it improved the toolkit to provide better environments for multimedia collaboration.
This deliverable is a report on the usability of the tools used by and developed within the MECCANO project. These tools have largely been proven by a number of applications within the project described in the deliverable R8.2 of work package 8. The results of this work package, as well as information gathered from other Telematics projects, has been used in assessing the usability of the tools.
Keyword list:
Distance Education, Multimedia conferencing, Multimedia tools evaluation, Mbone, Multicast, Seminars,
* Type: PU - public, LI - limited, RP - restricted
** Nature: PR - Prototype, RE - Report, SP - Specification, TO - Tool, OT - Other
|
Project Number: 4007 ( RE) Project Title: Multimedia Education and
Conferencing Collaboration over ATM Networks and Others (MECCANO) Deliverable Type: (PU/LI/RP)* PU |
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Deliverable Number: D4.1 Contractual Date of Delivery: 31 August 1998 Title of Deliverable: Initial release of tools to be used in MECCANO Work-Packages contributing to the Deliverable: 4 Nature of the Deliverable: (PR/RE/SP/TO/OT)**
TO Author: Roy Bennett,
Project Manager, MECCANO Those responsible for
individual tools are acknowledged in the relevant sections. |
Abstract:
The tools we are delivering are available via the MECCANO Web site at:
http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/projects/meccano/deliverables/
We have documented each of the tools under the headings Acknowledgements, Release Description, Systems Requirements and Installation Guidelines.
The deliverable consists of the following tools:
Keyword
list:
audio, Mbone, multicast, multimedia conferencing, network monitoring, RTP/2, shared workspace, video, voting
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Project Number: 4007 ( RE) Project Title: Multimedia Education and Conferencing
Collaboration over ATM Networks and Others (MECCANO) Deliverable
Type: (PU/LI/RP)* PU |
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Deliverable
Number: D4.2 Contractual
Date of Delivery: 31 March 1999 Title of
Deliverable: First major release of
MECCANO tools Work-Packages
contributing to the Deliverable: 4 Nature of the
Deliverable: (PR/RE/SP/TO/OT)** TO Author: Roy Bennett, Project
Manager, MECCANO Those
responsible for individual tools are acknowledged in the relevant sections. |
Abstract:
The tools we are delivering:
AOFwb and AOFrec 1.4 Rendez-Vous 1.0.6
AudioGate 0.1 SDR 2.6.1
FreePhone 3.7 Beta 1 Wbcontrol 1.0
RAT 3.0.33 and 4.0.0
are available from the project web site at:
http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/projects/meccano/deliverables/
This document describes the software being delivered. The deliverable constitutes a specific package of software provided at this date. Any improved or bug-fix versions will be made available as necessary by providers of the individual tools. The purpose of the deliverable is to provide versions of the software which have been improved since the start of the project. Some of these versions should be considered as prototype versions (alpha or beta); we consider them to be experimental, although suitable for the user groups which we support where the added functionality is needed.
During the remainder of the project we will continue to improve the tools and will deliver upgraded versions in a further release D4.3, the second major release of MECCANO tools, in March 2000. In the meantime, the most recent versions of the tools in the MECCANO toolset can always be found under Software on the project web site at:
http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/projects/meccano/
We have documented each of the tools under the headings Acknowledgements, Release Description, Systems Requirements and Installation Guidelines.
Keyword list:
audio, Mbone, multicast, multimedia conferencing, RTP/2, session announcement, video
Project Number: Telematics for Research 4007
Project Title: Multimedia Education and Conferencing Collaboration over
ATM Networks and Others
(MECCANO)
Deliverable Type: PU
Title
of Deliverable: Second major release of MECCANO tools
Deliverable
ID: D4.3
Produced
by Workpackage: 4 and 6
Contractual
Date of Delivery: March 31, 2000 Revised delivery date: May 31, 2000
Author(s): Editors: T Turletti, INRIA; R Bennett, UCL
Contributors: T Cicic, UiO; K Hasler, UCL; P. Kirstein,
UCL; J Lienhard, UF;
M
Mauve, UM; J Ott, TELES; R Ruchala, ACC
Those responsible for
individual tools are acknowledged in the relevant sections.
Abstract:
The tools we are delivering:
AOFwb/AOFrec 1.4.5 MURS 2.1 SAGA
AudioGate
0.3 NTE
2.1 SCS 4.0
dlb 1.8.3 RAT 4.2.6 SDR 3.0
IP-PSTN ReLaTe 2.1 SVDA 2.0
JMFPlayer RTSPC 1.3 VIC 2.8ucl-1.1.3
are available from the project web site at:
http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/projects/meccano/deliverables/
This document describes the software being delivered. The deliverable constitutes a specific package of software provided at this date. Any improved or bug-fix versions may be made available as necessary by providers of the individual tools. The deliverable provides some new tools and improved versions of the software delivered in tool deliverable D4.2. It represents the final development within the project. Some of these versions are still considered to be prototype versions (alpha or beta); although to some extent experimental, they have been used successfully by the user groups which we have supported where the added functionality was needed.
The tools are documented under these headings, as appropriate: Introduction, Acknowledgements, Release Description, Systems Requirements, Installation Guidelines and Future work.
Keyword list:
audio, IP gateways, Mbone, multicast, multimedia conferencing, multimedia server, RTP/2, session announcement, security, video
Project
Number: Telematics for Research 4007 Project
Title: Multimedia Education and Conferencing
Collaboration over
ATM Networks and Others (MECCANO)
Title of
Deliverable: Support for network technologies in the
MECCANO tools and
performance characteristics of the MECCANO systems and
their effect on system parameters Deliverable
ID: R5.1/5.2 Produced by
Workpackage: 5 Contractual
Date of Delivery: March 31, 2000 Editor: Colin Perkins Contributors: Roy
Bennett, Kristian Hasler, Peter
Kirstein, Jörg Ott, Andreas
Rozek, Radoslaw Ruchala, Thierry Turletti
Abstract: The aim of the MECCANO project
was to provide a robust networked multimedia education and conferencing
environment, suitable for use over a wide range of network technologies.
To cope with the heterogeneity this implies, the Internet Protocol (IP)
was adopted as a unifying platform over a range of layer 2 technologies
(Ethernet, ATM, direct broadcast satellite, ISDN). Where it is not possible
to use native IP, a number of gateways have been developed to other
network architectures. This report describes the
underlying network technologies supported and the way in which the tools
have been developed to adapt to these technologies. It discusses the
performance required of an IP network for the successful use of the
MECCANO tools and then reports on the observed performance in the context
of IPv4 (unicast and multicast) and IPv6. Finally the report describes
the tool support provided for non-IP networks, such as ISDN, ATM and DBS,
and the performance of such networks in the context of MECCANO. Keyword
list: Multimedia Conferencing, adaptation to network performance,
IP-Multicast, IPv6, ATM, DBS, ISDN, PSTN.
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Project Number: 4007 ( RE) Project Title: Multimedia Education and Conferencing
Collaboration over ATM Networks and Others (MECCANO) Deliverable
Type: (PU/LI/RP)* PU |
|
Deliverable
Number: D6.1 Contractual
Date of Delivery: 31 March 1999 Title of
Deliverable: The gateways and relays
in MECCANO Release 1. Work-Packages
contributing to the Deliverable: 6 Nature of the
Deliverable: (PR/RE/SP/TO/OT)** TO/RE Authors: Joerg Ott, Universitaet Bremen, Colin
Perkins, UCL |
Abstract:
We describe the gateway architecture being developed in this workpackage as an extension of the Mbus work ongoing in WP7, and the initial demonstrator applications that leverage and build on the media engines developed in WP4. Two demonstrators have been delivered already: the UCL Transcoding Gateway (in D4.1) and AudioGate (in D4.2). We note directions for future work in the area of demonstrators: StarGate and enhanced versions of AudioGate and the UCL Transcoding Gateway.
Keyword list:
demonstrators, gateway, Mbone, multicast, multimedia conferencing, relay, videoconferencing
|
Project Number: 4007 ( RE) Project Title: Multimedia Education and Conferencing
Collaboration over ATM Networks and Others (MECCANO) Deliverable
Type: (PU/LI/RP)* PU |
|
Deliverable
Number: D7.1 Contractual
Date of Delivery: 31 March 1999 Title of
Deliverable: The Session Announcement
and Management Facilities in MECCANO Release 1. Work-Packages
contributing to the Deliverable: 7 Nature of the
Deliverable: (PR/RE/SP/TO/OT)** TO/RE Authors: Colin Perkins, Jörg Ott & Dirk Kutscher |
Abstract:
This document describes the initial work by MECCANO on session announcement and management facilities. We describe the standards work undertaken by project members, the protocols under development, and the demonstrator applications we are delivering. The major protocol development with MECCANO WP7 is related to the Mbus, although we are also working on SDP, SIP and SAP. The demonstrators are SDR, RAT, FreePhone and AudioGate.
Keyword list:
SDP, SAP,
SIP, Mbus, RAT, AudioGate.
Project
Number: Telematics for Research 4007
Project
Title: Multimedia Education and Conferencing
Collaboration over
ATM
Networks and Others (MECCANO)
Deliverable
Type: PU
Title of
Deliverable: Session announcement, management
facilities, gateways and
relays
in MECCANO Release 2
Deliverable
ID: D6.2/7.2
Produced
by Workpackage: 4, 6 and 7
Contractual
Date of Delivery: March 31, 2000 Revised delivery date: May
31, 2000
Author(s): Editor: J Ott, UB/TZI
Contributors: O Bergmann, UB/TZI; T Cicic, UIO; M
Germeier, UB/TZI;
K
Hasler, UCL; P Kirstein, UCL; D Kutscher, UB/TZI;
C
Perkins, UCL; N Pollem UB/TZI; R Ruchala, ACC;
S Sørlie, UIO; E Whelan, UCL
Abstract:
This document combines MECCANO deliverables D6.2 and D7.2 to avoid repetition of the closely related work items. It describes the MECCANO work on conference control and gateway development, showing the close relation between them.
A key development has been the completion of the first revision of the Message Bus system protocol specifications, extensively implemented in the gateways and in other tools. MECCANO has played an active role in control protocol development in both the IETF and ITU-T.
The deliverable follows the structure of D7.1 to enable easy tracking of the significant achievements reached in the project. We begin by relating this deliverable to the others which describe or discuss the toolset. Following a summary of our activities in international standards bodies, we describe the various implementations carried out as part of MECCANO, divided into two main sections – demonstrator applications relating to the standards work in Workpackage 7 and the gateways developed in Workpackage 6, some aspects of which also demonstrate the standards developments. In view of the level of detail provided, some of the protocol descriptions and the finer points of the implementations are provided in appendices. We end with conclusions and an indication of possible future work in this area. The software itself is delivered in D4.3, Second major release of MECCANO tools.
Keyword list:
Audio, IP gateways, H.323, Mbone, multicast, multimedia conferencing, multimedia server, RTP/2, session announcement, security, video
Project Number: Telematics
for Research 4007 Project Title: Multimedia
Education and Conferencing Collaboration over ATM
Networks and Others (MECCANO)
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Project
Number: Telematics for Research 4007 Project
Title: Multimedia Education and Conferencing
Collaboration over ATM
Networks and Others (MECCANO)
Title of
Deliverable: The support provided to
validation projects during Year
1 (June 1998 – May 1999). Deliverable
ID: R9.1 Produced by
Workpackage: 9 Contractual
Date of Delivery: May 31, 1999 Author(s): Editor: Roy Bennett, University College London Contributors: Igor
Bokun, ACC; John Robinson, CRC; Jörg
Ott, TELES; Roy
Bennett & Peter Kirstein, UCL. Abstract: The MECCANO project, building on the
results of the MERCI project, is further improving the MERCI toolkit to
provide a better environment for multimedia collaboration. The tools used by the project, whether
developed by MECCANO or from other sources, are proven within the project
by the activities of WP8, Consolidation of Applications. Further
validation and important user feedback is provided by those projects and
users using the MECCANO tools in their work. Some we actively support as
part of WP9, Support for Validation Sites. In this document we report on
the work of supporting our users during the first year of the project. The projects we have supported have
used the tools under the real
conditions for remote teaching, seminars and distributed virtual meetings.
We describe the work of the supported projects and the progress that has
been made by them and by us. Keyword
list:
Multimedia Conferencing, Distance Education, Mbone,
User support, Validation.
Project
Number: Telematics for Research 4007 Project
Title: Multimedia Education and Conferencing
Collaboration over ATM
Networks and Others (MECCANO)
Title of Deliverable:
The support provided to validation projects during Year 2 (June
1999 – May 2000). Deliverable ID: R9.2 Produced by Workpackage:
9 Contractual Date of Delivery: May 31, 2000 Author(s): Editor: Roy Bennett, University College London Contributors: Kjell Åge Bringsrund, UiO; Jochen Lienhard, UF; Andreas
Rozek, RUS; Jörg Ott, TELES; Radoslaw
Ruchala, ACC Abstract: The MECCANO project has, during its
second year, continued to further improve its multimedia conferencing
toolkit for multimedia collaboration. The tools used by the project, whether
developed by MECCANO or from other sources, are proven within the project
by the activities of WP8, Consolidation of Applications. Further
validation and important user feedback is provided by those projects and
users using the MECCANO tools in their work. Some we actively support as
part of WP9, Support for Validation
Sites. In this document we report on the work of supporting these
users during the second year of the project. The projects we support use the tools
under the real conditions for
remote teaching, seminars and distributed virtual meetings. We describe
the work of these projects and the progress that has been made by them and
by us. Keyword
list:
Multimedia Conferencing, Distance Education, Mbone,
User support, Validation.
Appendix
B
Information
dissemination materials
Table
of content
The project brochure
Latest version – January 2000 16
Special version for WTC2000 demonstration 18
Web page printouts
Project home page 19
Prosoma showcase entry 23
Posters (original A1)
Steps to achieving secure conferencing 30
Secure conferencing using SCS 31
Other brochures
Secure conferencing 32
Accessing Mbone sessions over N-ISDN 33
Figure 1: MECCANO tools handout – front
Figure 2: MECCANO tools handout - reverse
Figure 3: WTC2000 demonstration handout
Figure 4: MECCANO Home Page 1 of 4
Figure 5: MECCANO Home Page 2 of
4
Figure 6: MECCANO Home Page 3 of
4
Figure 7: MECCANO Home Page 4 of
4
Figure 8: Prosoma showcase entry 1 of 7
Figure
9: Prosoma showcase
entry 2 of 7
Figure
10: Prosoma
showcase entry 3 of 7
Figure
11: Prosoma
showcase entry 4 of 7
Figure
12: Prosoma
showcase entry 5 of 7
Figure
13: Prosoma
showcase entry 6 of 7
Figure 14: Prosoma showcase entry 7 of 7
Appendix C
Contract Management
Information
The project used a modified
and improved version of the web-based project management reporting system
developed for the MERCI Project (RE1007). This system allowed partners to
report on their contributions to their workpackages and the workpackage leaders
to summarise these for the Management and Progress Reports submitted to the
project officer by project management.
Table
of content
1. Initial page 36
2. Partner reporting
selection page 37
3. Partner report 38
4. Workpackage reporting
selection page 39
5. Workpackage report 40
6. Summary partner report –
current and cumulative pms 42
7. Summary report of current
pms 43
This is an example of the report created by each partner each period. The individual workpackage input is presented to the workpackage leaders to enable them to develop their workpackage reports.
This is an example of the report for each workpackage for each period. It is completed by the workpackage leader by reference to the partner reports of each partner on the workpackage.
The report is presented in two parts.
This
management report which can be produced for any partner for any periods.
This summary is in a file produced by the system and inserted into the Mnagement report table for the relevant period.
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* Type: PU - public, LI - limited, RP - restricted
** Nature: PR - Prototype, RE - Report, SP - Specification, TO - Tool, OT - Other
* Type: PU - public, LI - limited, RP - restricted
** Nature: PR - Prototype, RE - Report, SP - Specification, TO - Tool, OT - Other
* Type: PU - public, LI - limited, RP - restricted
** Nature: PR - Prototype, RE - Report, SP - Specification, TO - Tool, OT - Other
* Type: PU - public, LI - limited, RP - restricted
** Nature: PR - Prototype, RE - Report, SP - Specification, TO - Tool, OT - Other
