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		<title>Marianna at 16:09, 19 May 2008</title>
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		<updated>2008-05-19T16:09:57Z</updated>

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		<title>Marianna: /* Links */</title>
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		<updated>2008-05-19T16:05:34Z</updated>

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		<title>Marianna: 1 revision</title>
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		<updated>2008-05-15T18:17:28Z</updated>

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		<title>Csoma at 20:11, 9 January 2008</title>
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		<updated>2008-01-09T20:11:19Z</updated>

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;lt;&amp;lt; [[Slicer/Features]]&lt;br /&gt;
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  For updates see [[OpenIGTLink]]&lt;br /&gt;
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=Title=&lt;br /&gt;
Middleware&lt;br /&gt;
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=Names=&lt;br /&gt;
*session leader&lt;br /&gt;
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*participants&lt;br /&gt;
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=Technology/Function description=&lt;br /&gt;
== Goal ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Slicer + IGSTK&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Technologies ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Look at Publish subscribe ORB/ACE - [http://portals.omg.org/dds DDS] [Peter]&lt;br /&gt;
* Socket IGSTK [Junichi Patrick] &lt;br /&gt;
* Navitrack - phase out?&lt;br /&gt;
** Hard to debug&lt;br /&gt;
** Not modular (some modules can't be disabled)&lt;br /&gt;
** No error handling - just halt&lt;br /&gt;
** Not as simple and clean as just using the standard TCP/IP socket&lt;br /&gt;
** Still problems with image transfer under Windows and possibly other OS (packet size is not based on the size allowed by OS)&lt;br /&gt;
** Security: can be flooded with packets, no authentication&lt;br /&gt;
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==Requirements==&lt;br /&gt;
* Reliable for command transfer (all data transferred, in order)&lt;br /&gt;
* Fast for tracking data transfer (only the latest coordinate is required, can lose data)&lt;br /&gt;
* Image transfer (500K or more)&lt;br /&gt;
* Data types (struct: string, integer, float)&lt;br /&gt;
* Data type checking (number is correctly formatted etc)&lt;br /&gt;
* Time out (device is down)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Would be nice to have==&lt;br /&gt;
* Priority&lt;br /&gt;
* Point - multi-point data transfer&lt;br /&gt;
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==Questions==&lt;br /&gt;
* UDP - fast, no delay due to ACK packages&lt;br /&gt;
* TCP/IP - reliable, easy&lt;br /&gt;
* Security&lt;br /&gt;
** malicious packets or sent by mistake&lt;br /&gt;
** CRC and auth.?&lt;br /&gt;
** pop up a dialog box before accepting data? (just one, to avoid flood)&lt;br /&gt;
** same issues with [[Slicer3:Slicer_Daemon]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Firewall?&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.cisst.org/wiki/MRI_robot/MIT_2007_06_27_Meeting discussion about data transfer]&lt;br /&gt;
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=Potential application in IGT=&lt;br /&gt;
* Tracker data transfer&lt;br /&gt;
* Image transfer from MRI&lt;br /&gt;
* Robot coordinate transfer&lt;br /&gt;
* Robot control&lt;br /&gt;
* Periferials: OpenTracker/Navitrack has 3D mouse driver etc.&lt;br /&gt;
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=Which part is already in Slicer=&lt;br /&gt;
* IGSTK intra process communication&lt;br /&gt;
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=What is not=&lt;br /&gt;
* IGSTK inter-process communication&lt;br /&gt;
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=Who among us will take leading role?=&lt;br /&gt;
* Junichi&lt;br /&gt;
* Georgetown&lt;br /&gt;
* JHU&lt;br /&gt;
* Queen's&lt;br /&gt;
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=Links=&lt;br /&gt;
* [[2007_Slier_IGTWS_homework_GT]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[2007_Slier_IGTWS_homework_NCIGT]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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