Introducing Ezcall

My project, Ezcall, demonstrates a lightweight call signaling and peer-to-peer control of WebRTC video conferencing.  

Two main goals of this project are: (1) to show a lightweight call signaling using push notifications, as well as serverless call signaling using email messaging, and (2) to do peer-to-peer control of video conferencing application logic, using WebRTC API in the browser.

A generic video-io component for WebRTC

This article proposes a generic video-io web component for WebRTC. It can enable various real-time applications such as voice/video conferencing, video messaging, video presence and video broadcast. This client side component may be connected with any signaling channel or mechanism to integrate with existing or new websites or applications. 

By encapsulating the core functions in a single easy-to-understand component, the component enables reuse of the core media features present in WebRTC. Without this, a user relies on the individual website or application developer to support and expose those media features. 

Additionally, I describe the design of a global secure application service that can act as a signaling mechanism for all such component instances.

WebRTC notification system and signaling paradigms

This article describes notification system in WebRTC, and presents some common signaling paradigms found in existing WebRTC applications: How does WebRTC work? What is a notification service? What are the signaling paradigms? Which one would you choose? Can the abstractions be converted from one another?