Design and implementation of collaboration support in virtual experiment environment

Abstract

In virtual experiment environment, it is very important that users can collaborate to do an experiment. Based on the combination of collaboration technology and virtual experiment, the paper has proposed a collaboration support platform. In the platform, all users who will do collaboration form a group, in which there exists a master user. In the process of collaboration, the master user creates packets which includes operations of the master user and sends to other users through the application server. The other users can restore the operations in their terminal. The application server ensures the synchronization of collaboration. According to the analysis of running instance, the collaboration system has dynamic adaptability and distribution of collaborative capabilities and efficiently solves the problem of resource sharing and scheduling in the virtual experiment environment. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.