Group communication in the reTHINK framework

The reTHINK project has the ambition to help Telecom operators to leverage their own strengths by coupling them with the WebRTC principles and its own original and innovative concepts. It describes a framework that provides a set of solutions to manage global real time communication services through the execution in the browser of a dedicated runtime environment. We propose to technically extend the actual scope of the reTHINK framework by implementing this runtime environment in edge servers. The feasibility and the soundness of our approach is validated and illustrated by the implementation in the reTHINK framework of a sophisticated multimedia communication service requiring such an architecture. This contribution to reTHINK also opens up wide doors for its extension to non-human communications like the ones involved in IoT/M2M.