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4.2 Joint Draw Pad
The JDP is a tool for making joint figures or designs. The users
may be in different locations but they can draw or make a design
in the same pad. For the sake of space, we show in Fig. 10 and Fig.
11 the display for Windows XP and Mac. In fact, in Fig. 10
(Windows XP) is drawn the circle and this circle is shown at the
same time in other environments. The heart is drawn in Linux, the
rectangular shape is drawn in Mac, and the triangular shape is
drawn in UNIX. This tool also can be used for collaboration
research from different sites.
4.3 Shared Web Browser
The SWB application tool is shown in Fig. 12 and Fig. 13 for
Windows XP and UNIX, respectively. Using this application, the
peers in the same room can see the same URL. In these figures is
shown the homepage of Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT),
Japan. This tool is very useful application and can be used for
collaboration research. For example if one peer finds an
interesting homepage with good papers and research work, he can
send this information to other peers. Thus, they can work
efficiently together.
4.4 Subaru Avatar
Another application tool is SA. For using this tool, the peer
prepares a room, then changes from Mode to Discussion. Next, he
pushes the Login button. Then, when the user moves the mouse in
the direction he wants, the avatar follows the mouse movement. In
this application, there is a text field. If the peer writes something
in the text field, the information will be shown in the peerís avatar.
In this way, the peers can communicate and exchange the
information with each other. The capture display for Linux and
Mac are shown in Fig. 14 and Fig. 15, respectively. The SA can
be used as a chat application between peers for communication in
real time.
5. CONCLUSIONS
In this paper, we improved our previous platform TOMSCOP and
implemented a multiplatform P2P system called M3PS. Different
from many other similar platforms, it has adopted a pure P2P
architecture and each peer has to administrate collaborative rooms.
To demonstrate the platform effectiveness, we showed four
application tools: INFO, JDP, SWB and SA. By many
experiments, we found that proposed M3PS operates smoothly in
the four environments.
As the future work, we will deal with following issues:
• secure room administration in P2P communication;
• audio and video communications;
• efficient pipe advertisement creation to avoid creating
duplicated pipe advertisement for a room;
• development of new shared applications.
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