Remote Desktop Access Protocols

1. Virtual Network Computing - VNC
        Authors:    Tristan Richardson, Quentin Stafford-Fraser, Kenneth R. Wood and Andy Hopper
        Published: IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 2 ,  Issue 1  (January 1998)
        URL:         http://www.realvnc.com www.uvnc.com www.tightvnc.com
        Paper:       http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/DTG/attarchive/pub/docs/att/tr.98.1.pdf 
        Review:     (Remote Desktop tool, not a collaboration tool)
 
2. Remote Desktop Connection - RDP
        http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q186607
        http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/termserv.mspx
        http://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-T.128-199802-I!!PDF-E&type=items (ITU-T T.128 Multipoint Application Sharing 217 pages)

3. THINC
        Authors:    Ricardo Baratto, Leonard Kim, and Jason Nieh
        Published:  Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2005), Brighton, United Kingdom, October 23-26, 2005
        URL:         http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/research/thinc/
        Paper:       http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/publications/sosp2005_fordist.pdf
        Review:     (thin client, remote desktop NOT a collaboration tool, linux only)

Application Sharing and Collaboration (Generic - Any Application)

4. Experience with mirror drivers for distributed workspace (Software is not available.)
        Authors:    Li Gao, Jingyuan Zhang, Qunwei Zheng, Zheng Wang , Computer Science Department, The University of Alabama
        Published:  ACM Southeast Regional Conference, Proceedings of the 45th annual southeast regional conference,Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2007
        URL:         http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1233341.1233372
        Review:     (Single remote user only, designed for remote access to desktop)
 
5. TTT: Transparent TeleTeaching. (Free)
        Authors:      Peter Ziewer und Helmut Seidl.
        Published:   In Proceedings of ASCILITE 2002, Auckland, NZ, Dez. 2002.
        URL:          http://ttt.in.tum.de/dl/ASCILITE2002.pdf
        Review:      Remote clients can not participate (viewer only).

6. SharedAppVNC (Free)
        Author:  Kai Li's research group at Princeton University Computer Science Department
        URL:     http://shared-app-vnc.sourceforge.net/
        Paper:   http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix07/tech/full_papers/wallace/wallace.pdf
        Review: Unacceptable delay (2-5 seconds), lossy codec. Privacy is preserved (overlapping non-shared windows are blocked).

7. MAST: Multicast application sharing tool – Facilitating the eMinerals virtual organization.  (Free)
        Authors:    GJ Lewis, SM Hasan, VN Alexandrov, MT Dove and M Calleja.
        Published:  Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3516, 359–366, 2005
        URL:         http://www.eminerals.org/documents/Springer_MAST_2005.pdf
        Review:     Poor implementation, even window resizing is not working.
 

Other Projects & Papers

8. The Multi-Pointer X Server (MPX)
        Authors:    Peter Hutterer and Bruce H. Thomas Wearable Computer Lab, School of CIS University of South Australia
        Published:  In 8th Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC2007) Balarat, Bic, Australia
        URL:         http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/
        Paper:       http://www.who-t.net/publications/hutterer2006_tidl.pdf
        Others:      http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/images/e/ea/Hutterer2008a.pdf 
        
9. On the Performance of Wide-Area Thin-Client Computing
        Albert Lai and Jason Nieh, "On the Performance of Wide-Area Thin-Client Computing",
        ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 24(2), May 2006, pp. 175-209.
        http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/publications/tocs2003_i2thin.pdf

10.  A generic application sharing architecture based on message-oriented middleware platform
        Lu, H., Chu, Y., Sheu, R., and Lo, W. 2008. Comput. Stand. Interfaces 30, 3 (Mar. 2008), 191-199.
        http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csi.2007.08.016

11. Adaptive Synchronization of Semantically Compressed Instructional Videos for Collaborative Distance Learning
        Dan Phung, Giuseppe Valetto, Gail E. Kaiser, Tiecheng Liu, and John R. Kender
        International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 5(2), pp. 56-75, April-June 2007
        http://www.cs.columbia.edu/techreports/cucs-046-05.pdf

Collaboration (Requires application modification and/or application specific techniques)

 12. Leveraging single-user applications for multi-user collaboration: the CoWord approach
        S. Xia, D. Sun, C. Sun, D Chen, and H.F. Shen,
        Proceedings of ACM 2004 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Nov 6-10, Chicago, IL USA, pp.162-171.
        Full paper pdf

Collaborative Text Editing

13. A lightweight approach to transparent sharing of familiar single-user editors
        Li, D. and Lu, J. 2006. In Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
        (Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 04 - 08,             2006). CSCW '06. ACM, New York, NY, 139-148.
        http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180896

Collaborative CAD

14. A general framework for constructing application cooperating system in Windows environment
        Xu, B., Lian, W., and Gao, Q. 2003. . SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes 28, 2 (Mar. 2003), 15.
        http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/638750.638787

15. A method and tool for human-human interaction and instant collaboration in CSCW-based CAD
        He, F. and Han, S. 2006. . Comput. Ind. 57, 8 (Dec. 2006), 740-751.
        http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2006.04.019

16. Collaborative computer-aided design—research and development trend
        W.D. Li, J.Y.H. Fuh, Y.S. Wong, , in: Proceedings of CAD’04 Conference,Pattaya, Thailand, May 24–29, 2004.
        Full paper PDF

17. Draw-together: graphical editor for collaborative drawing
        Ignat, C. and Norrie, M. C. 2006. . In Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
        (Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 04 - 08, 2006). CSCW '06. ACM, New York, NY, 269-278.
        http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1180875.1180917

Collaboraties

18. Capturing and supporting contexts for scientific data sharing via the biological sciences collaboratory
        Chin, G. and Lansing, C. S. 2004.  In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
        (Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 06 - 10, 2004). CSCW '04. ACM, New York, NY, 409-418.
        http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1031607.1031677

19. Benefits of synchronous collaboration support for an application-centered analysis team working on complex problems: a case study
        Linebarger, J. M., Scholand, A. J., Ehlen, M. A., and Procopio, M. J. 2005. In Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP Conference
         on Supporting Group Work (Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, November 06 - 09, 2005). GROUP '05. ACM, New York, NY, 51-60.
        http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1099203.1099211

20. Prototyping the Workspaces of the Future (The Access Grid)
        Rick Stevens, Michael E. Papka, Terry Disz,  IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 07,  no. 4,  pp. 51-58,  Jul/Aug,  2003
        ftp://info.mcs.anl.gov/pub/tech_reports/reports/P1064.pdf