This paper describes the design and prototype implementation of a communication platform aiming to provide voice and video\r\ncommunication in a distributed networking environment. Performance considerations and network characteristics have also been\r\ntaken into account in order to provide the set of properties dictated by the sensitive nature and the real-time characteristics of\r\nthe targeted application scenarios. The proposed system has been evaluated both by experimental means as well as subjective\r\ntests taken by an extensive number of users. The results show that the proposed platform operates seamlessly in two hops, while\r\nin the four hops scenario, audio and video are delivered with marginal distortion. The conducted survey indicates that the user\r\nexperience in terms of Quality of Service has obtained higher scores in the scenario with the two hops.
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