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uvgComm: Open Software for Low-Latency Multi-party Video Communication

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Effective and smooth video communication has become an integral tool for interaction in our modern society. The well-known WebRTC project is optimized for server-based communication architectures with less stringent latency requirements. This paper introduces an open-source, peer-to-peer (P2P) mesh-based application called uvgComm 1.0 for low-latency multi-party video communication. Our experimental results show that uvgComm attains 25% lower latency than server-based solutions at 219 ms. In addition, it offers advanced privacy protection mechanisms with end-to-end encryption and P2P mesh topology that delivers media without any media servers. The ambitious goal of uvgComm is to take P2P mesh-based conferencing architecture to the next level and make this architecture a serious competitor to server-based communication architectures.

Source: ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)

DOI: 10.1145/3664647.3685514

Authors: Joni Räsänen, Heikki Tampio, Alexandre Mercat, Jarno Vanne

Institution: Tampere University

Language: English

Topic: Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4403791989

FWCI: 0.462

Cites: 9

Cited by: 1

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