D Shepherd

Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems: 8th International Workshop, Idms 2001, Lancaster, Uk, September 4-7, 2001 Proceedings - Lecture Notes in Computer Science D Shepherd

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Invited Presentation.- QoS for Multimedia - What s Going to Make It Pay?.- Short Papers.- New Resource Control Issues in Shared Clusters.- Transport-Level Protocol Coordination in Cluster-to-Cluster Applications.- Data to the People - It s a Matter of Control.- An Access Control Architecture for Metropolitan Area Wireless Networks.- Media Distribution.- Design and Implementation of a QoS-Aware Replication Mechanism for a Distributed Multimedia System.- Distribution of Video-on-Demand in Residential Networks.- A QoS Negotiation Scheme for Efficient Failure Recovery in Multi-resolution Video Servers.- QoS Issues in Multimedia.- Tolerance of Highly Degraded Network Conditions for an H.323-Based VoIP Service.- Conception, Implementation, and Evaluation of a QoS-Based Architecture for an IP Environment Supporting Differentiated Services.- A Service Differentiation Scheme for the End-System.- Invited Presentation.- Enabling the Internet to Provide Multimedia Services.- Multimedia Middleware.- Design and Application of TOAST: An Adaptive Distributed Multimedia Middleware Platform.- QoS Management Middleware: A Separable, Reusable Solution.- State Transmission Mechanisms for a Collaborative Virtual Environment Middleware Platform.- Congestion Control and Adaptation.- A Stable and Flexible TCP-Friendly Congestion Control Protocol for Layered Multicast Transmission.- Content-Aware Quality Adaptation for IP Sessions with Multiple Streams.- The Minimal Buffering Requirements of Congestion Controlled Interactive Multimedia Applications.- Short Papers.- Video Content Management Using Logical Content.- Adaptive Clustering Using Mobile Agents in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks.- Mobile 4-in-6: A Novel Mechanism for IPv4/v6 Transitioning.- The Case for Streaming Multimedia with TCP.- Invited Presentation.- The MPEG-21 Standard: Why an Open Multimedia Framework?.- Control of Multimedia Networks.- Selecting the QoS Parameters for Multicast Applications Based on User Profile and Device Capability.- A Novel Group Integrity Concept for Multimedia Multicasting.- Constraint-Based Configuration of Proxylets for Programmable Networks."Publisher Marketing: This work constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems, IDMS 2001, held in Lancaster, UK, in September 2001. The 15 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 3 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The book offers topical sections on media distribution, QoS issues in multimedia, multimedia middleware, congestion control and adaptation, and control of multimedia networks.