Integrating multiple HD video services over tiled display for advanced multi-party collaboration

Abstract

Multi-party collaborative environments based on AG (Access Grid) are extensively utilized for distance learning, e-science, and other distributed global collaboration events. In such environments, A/V media services play an important role in providing QoE (quality of experience) to participants in collaboration sessions. In this paper, in order to support high-quality user experience in the aspect of video services, we design an integration architecture to combine high-quality video services and a high-resolution tiled display service. In detail, the proposed architecture incorporates video services for DV (digital video) and HDV (high-definition digital video) streaming with a display service to provide methods for decomposable decoding/display for a tiled display system. By implementing the proposed architecture on top of AG, we verify that high-quality collaboration among a couple of collaboration sites can be realized over a multicast-enabled network testbed with improved media quality experience.