Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia

Performance of Protocols and Applications.- Optimal Traffic Shaping with Deterministic Guarantees Using GPS Scheduling.- Evaluation of Video Server Capacity with Regard to Quality of the Service in Interactive News-On-Demand Systems.- When FEC Speed up Data Access in P2P Networks.- Scalable Independent Multi-level Distribution in Multimedia Content Analysis.- Mobile Multimedia Systems I.- A Simulation Tool for Dimensioning and Performance Evaluation of the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network.- Vertical Handover Based Adaptation for Multimedia Applications in Pervasive Systems.- Avoiding DAD for Improving Real-Time Communication in MIPv6 Environments.- Design of OSGi Compatible Middleware Components for Mobile Multimedia Applications.- Standards and Related Issues.- A Fast QoS Adaptation Algorithm for MPEG-4 Multimedia Applications.- A Genetic Algorithm-Based Segmentation for Automatic VOP Generation.- Adaptive Motion Search Based on Block Difference and Motion Magnitude.- Quality of Service Issues I.- Does IPv6 Improve the Scalability of the Internet?.- Deploying New QoS Aware Transport Services.- A Rate Controller for Long-Lived TCP Flows.- Video Systems and Applications.- Low-Complexity Scalable Video Coding through Table Lookup VQ and Index Coding.- Accuracy vs. Speed Trade-Off in Detecting of Shots in Video Content for Abstracting Digital Video Libraries.- Distributed Video Documents Indexing and Content-Based Retrieving.- Voting Based Bandwidth Management in Multiparty Video Conferences.- Quality of Service Issues II.- Considering Non-real-time Traffic in Real-Time Packet Scheduling.- A Flexible Real-Time Hierarchical Multimedia Archive.- Tradeoffs between Signaling and Resource Utilization in DiffServ Networks with Hierarchical Aggregation.- Robust Delay Estimation for Internet Multimedia Applications.- Mobile Multimedia Systems II.- Supporting Mobile Multicast in Mobile Networks by Considering Host Mobility.- Fast Asynchronous Streaming Handoff.- Power Constraints: Another Dimension of Complexity in Continuous Media Playback.- Resource Management.- Replica Striping for Multi-resolution Video Servers.- On Availability QoS for Replicated Multimedia Service and Content.- An Open Middleware Architecture for Network-Integrated Multimedia.- Multimedia Support.- Security Attributes Based Digital Rights Management.- An Active Network Approach to Support Multimedia Relays.- Tutorials and Invited Program.- Internet Multimedia - Streaming Media (Tutorial).- Internet Middleware (Tutorial).- IP Network Monitoring and Measurements: Techniques and Experiences (Tutorial).- Media Representation Standards for the New Millennium (Tutorial).