Cuando las piedras se mueven. Nueva sede de la Delegación Provincial de Salud en Almería

Nueva sede de la Delegación Provincial de Salud en Almería. Alberto Campo Baeza, Modesto Sánchez Morales, Jose María García Ramírez, Francisco Salvador Granados. Premio ARCO 2004. COA de Almería.

dOTM: a mechanism for distributing centralized multi-party video conferencing in the cloud

One of the key factors for a given application to take advantage of cloud computing is the ability to scale in an efficient, fast and reliable way. In centralized multi-party video conferencing, dynamically scaling a running conversation is a complex problem. In this paper we propose a methodology to divide the Multipoint Control Unit (the video conferencing server) into more simple units, broadcasters. Each broadcaster receives the media from a participant, processes it and forwards it to the rest. These broadcasters can be distributed among a group of CPUs. By using this methodology, video conferencing systems can scale in a more granular way, improving the deployment.