Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems

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