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One of the most significant current challenges for the Web is enabling human real time communication via voice and video known as a Real Time Communication (RTC). Many web applications with this functionality need some kind of plugins, downloads or installs. This paper introduces a novel approach on how to integrate real-time multimedia communication into web browser as the most natural way. After analyzing problems and addressing open issues of browser RTC, paper focuses on one identify issue—multiple peer connections, presenting potential network topologies with their pros and cons in terms of implementation, cost and quality. Our research is then focus on implementing one multipoint network topologies which enables videoconferencing. Proposed solution is based on using a WebRTC standard as work in progress with the biggest positive echo in research and developers in that field [12].
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Picek, R., Picek, S. (2014). Multipoint Web Real-Time Communication. In: José Escalona, M., Aragón, G., Linger, H., Lang, M., Barry, C., Schneider, C. (eds) Information System Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07215-9_33
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