Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services: 7th International Workshop, IDMS 2000 Enschede, The Netherlands, October 17–20, 2000 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Gerard J. M. Smit (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1905
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services (IDMS) was organized by Prof. K. Rothermel and Prof. W. Effelsberg, and took place in Stuttgart in 1992. It had the form of a national forum for discussion on multimedia issues related to communications. The succeeding event was "attached" as a workshop to the German Computer Science Conference (GI Jahrestagung) in 1994 in Hamburg, organized by Prof. W. Lamersdorf. The chairs of the third IDMS, E. Moeller and B. Butscher, enhanced the event to become a very successful international meeting in Berlin in March 1996. This short overview on the first three IDMS events is taken from the preface of the IDMS’97 proceedings (published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1309), written by Ralf Steinmetz and Lars Wolf. Both, Ralf Steinmetz as general chair and Lars Wolf as program chair of IDMS’97, organized an excellent international IDMS in Darmstadt. Since 1998, IDMS has moved from Germany to other European cities to emphasize the international character it had gained in the previous years. IDMS’98 was organized in Oslo by Vera Goebel and Thomas Plagemann at UniK – Center for Technology at Kjeller, University of Oslo. Michel Diaz, Phillipe Owezarski, and Patrick Sénac successfully organized the sixth IDMS event, again outside Germany. IDMS'99 took place in Toulouse at ENSICA. IDMS 2000 continued the tradition and was hosted in Enschede, the Netherlands.

✦ Table of Contents

Energy-Efficient Hand-Held Multimedia Systems - Designing the Swiss Army Knife of Computing -....Pages 1-2
Realisation of an Adaptive Audio Tool....Pages 3-13
A Robust JPEG Coder for a Partially Reliable Transport Service....Pages 14-25
A Dynamic RAM Cache for High Quality Distributed Video....Pages 26-39
Fast and Optimal Multicast-Server Selection Based on Receivers’ Preference....Pages 40-52
Mcast: A Multicast Multimedia Communication Software Development Platform....Pages 53-64
Enforcing Multipoint Multimedia Synchronisation in Videoconferencing Applications....Pages 65-76
Utility Based Inter-stream Adaptation of Layered Streams in a Multiple-Flow IP Session....Pages 77-88
An Interaction Control Architecture for Large Chairperson-Controlled Conferences over the Internet....Pages 89-103
Using DMIF for Abstracting from IP-Telephony Signaling Protocols....Pages 104-115
Short-Range Connectivity with Bluetooth....Pages 116-116
A QoS-Control Architecture for Object Middleware....Pages 117-131
An Architecture for a Scalable Video-on-Demand Server Network with Quality-of-Service Guarantees....Pages 135-143
Augmented Reliable Multicast CORBA Event Service (ARMS): A QoS-Adaptive Middleware....Pages 144-157
Middleware Support for Media Streaming Establishment Driven by User-Oriented QoS Requirements....Pages 158-171
Interaction of Video on Demand Systems with Human-Like Avatars and Hypermedia....Pages 172-186
How to Make a Digital Whiteboard Secure-Using JAVA-Cards for Multimedia Applications....Pages 187-198
How to Keep a Dead Man from Shooting....Pages 199-204
Building Web Resources for Natural Scientists....Pages 205-210
On the Failure of Middleware to Support Multimedia Applications....Pages 211-213
JASMINE: Java Application Sharing in Multiuser INteractive Environments....Pages 214-226
Design and Implementation of a Framework for Monitoring Distributed Component Interactions....Pages 227-240
Specification and Implementation of an Extensible Multimedia System....Pages 241-253
Communication Protocol Implementation in Java....Pages 254-265
Active Component Driven Network Handoff for Mobile Multimedia Systems....Pages 266-278
“Mix and Match” Media Servers....Pages 279-284
Spatially Aware Local Communication in the RAUM System....Pages 285-296
The UbiCampus Project: Applying Ubiquitous Computing Technologies in a University Environment....Pages 297-303

✦ Subjects

Multimedia Information Systems; Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval