Old Work
Multimedia Application Sharing in a Heterogeneous
Environment (1995)
International Multimedia Conference Proceedings of the
third ACM international conference on Multimedia table of contents
Klaus H. Wolf and Konrad Froitzheim and Peter Schulthess
http://www-vs.informatik.uni-ulm.de:81/Papers/ACM95/QM.html
Application Sharing - Architecture and Performance
Aspects (1997)
Proceedings of the ACTS 2nd Mobile Communications
M. Schöttner, A. Kassler, A. Lupper, P. Dudzik, P. Schulthess
http://www-vs.informatik.uni-ulm.de/bib/1997/ACTS97/ACTS97.ps
Related Work
Virtual Network Computing - VNC
www.realvnc.com www.uvnc.com www.tightvnc.com
Remote Desktop Connection - RDP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/termserv.mspx
THINC
http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/research/thinc/
StreamMyGame (Free)
http://streammygame.com/smg/index.php
Very Similar Work
Experience with mirror drivers for distributed
workspace (Software is not available.)
Authors: Li Gao, Jingyuan Zhang, Qunwei Zheng, Zheng
Wang , Computer Science Department, The
Published: ACM Southeast Regional Conference, Proceedings of
the 45th annual southeast regional conference,
Review: (Single remote user only, designed for remote access
to desktop)
TTT: Transparent TeleTeaching.
(Free)
Authors: Peter Ziewer
und Helmut Seidl.
Published: In Proceedings of ASCILITE 2002,
URL: http://ttt.in.tum.de/dl/ASCILITE2002.pdf
Review: Remote
clients can not participate (viewer only).
Collaborative VNC (Free- TightVNC
only)
Author: Ben Levitt
URL: http://www.benjie.org/software/linux/collaborative-vnc/
Review: only a
prototype, floor control addition to VNC, no multicast, separate compression
for each client.
SharedAppVNC (Free)
Author: Kai Li's
research group at Princeton University Computer Science Department
URL: http://shared-app-vnc.sourceforge.net/
Review: Unacceptable delay (2-5 seconds), lossy codec.
Privacy
is preserved (overlapping non-shared windows are blocked).
Alkit VNC (Free)
Author : Mathias Johanson
URL : http://w2.alkit.se/avnc/
Review: very old software, no updates,
no privacy (overlapping
non-shared windows are not blocked) (screenshot screenshot)
Vision: Classroom Management Software (commercial)
Author:
URL: http://www.genevalogic.com/index.php?id=1650
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.
Collaborative Text Editing
SubEthaEdit
http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
($30 Mac OS X only)
ACE
http://ace.iserver.ch/index.php (Free – All Platforms)
A lightweight approach to transparent sharing of familiar
single-user editors
Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer
supported cooperative work,
Du Li, Jiajun
Lu Texas A&M University
X Multiplexors
A Survey of X Protocol Multiplexors
(1993)
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/170000/165304/p16-baldeschwieler.pdf?key1=165304&key2=4820221021&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=51512268&CFTOKEN=10570090
Design and Implementation of a Distributed X-Multiplexor (CCFX) (1998)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/5583/14954/00679743.pdf?arnumber=679743
XMX (1993)
http://www.cs.brown.edu/software/xmx/
SharedX (1993)
http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/94apr/apr94a4.pdf
X-based VNC server (xVNC) (vncserver on *nix)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/attarchive/vnc/xvnc.html
