A Web Services Framework for Collaboration and Videoconferencing

Conference control has been studied for years but most researches focus on homogenous A/V collaboration. There is no conference control framework for integration of multiple videoconferencing systems such as H.323, SIP and AccessGrid. In this paper, we propose a webserviced based scalable conference control framework for such heterogeneous collaboration system. Based on XGSP A/V Web-Services framework, we propose a Global Multimedia Collaboration System (Global-MMCS), which can integrate multiple collaboration systems, and support various collaboration clients and communities. Now the prototype is being developed and deployed across many universities in USA and China.