Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia: Joint International Workshops on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Protocols for Multimedia Systems, IDMS/PROMS 2002 Coimbra, Portugal, November 26–29, 2002 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Enrique Hernández, Joan Vila, Sergio Saez, Silvia Terrasa (auth.), Fernando Boavida, Edmundo Monteiro, João Orvalho (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 385
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2515
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint International Workshops on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Protocols for Multimedia Systems, IDMS/PROMS 2002, held in Coimbra, Portugal in November 2002.
The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on performance of protocols and applications, mobile multimedia systems, standards and related issues, quality of service, video systems and applications, resource management, and multimedia support.

✦ Table of Contents

Optimal Traffic Shaping with Deterministic Guarantees Using GPS Scheduling....Pages 1-14
Evaluation of Video Server Capacity with Regard to Quality of the Service in Interactive News-On-Demand Systems....Pages 15-25
When FEC Speed up Data Access in P2P Networks....Pages 26-36
Scalable Independent Multi-level Distribution in Multimedia Content Analysis....Pages 37-48
A Simulation Tool for Dimensioning and Performance Evaluation of the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network....Pages 49-60
Vertical Handover Based Adaptation for Multimedia Applications in Pervasive Systems....Pages 61-72
Avoiding DAD for Improving Real-Time Communication in MIPv6 Environments....Pages 73-79
Design of OSGi Compatible Middleware Components for Mobile Multimedia Applications....Pages 80-91
A Fast QoS Adaptation Algorithm for MPEG-4 Multimedia Applications....Pages 92-105
A Genetic Algorithm-Based Segmentation for Automatic VOP Generation....Pages 106-117
Adaptive Motion Search Based on Block Difference and Motion Magnitude....Pages 118-129
Does IPv6 Improve the Scalability of the Internet?....Pages 130-140
Deploying New QoS Aware Transport Services....Pages 141-153
A Rate Controller for Long-Lived TCP Flows....Pages 154-165
Low-Complexity Scalable Video Coding through Table Lookup VQ and Index Coding....Pages 166-175
Accuracy vs. Speed Trade-Off in Detecting of Shots in Video Content for Abstracting Digital Video Libraries....Pages 176-189
Distributed Video Documents Indexing and Content-Based Retrieving....Pages 190-201
Voting Based Bandwidth Management in Multiparty Video Conferences....Pages 202-215
Considering Non-real-time Traffic in Real-Time Packet Scheduling....Pages 216-228
A Flexible Real-Time Hierarchical Multimedia Archive....Pages 229-240
Tradeoffs between Signaling and Resource Utilization in DiffServ Networks with Hierarchical Aggregation....Pages 241-254
Robust Delay Estimation for Internet Multimedia Applications....Pages 255-262
Supporting Mobile Multicast in Mobile Networks by Considering Host Mobility....Pages 263-273
Fast Asynchronous Streaming Handoff....Pages 274-287
Power Constraints: Another Dimension of Complexity in Continuous Media Playback....Pages 288-299
Replica Striping for Multi-resolution Video Servers....Pages 300-312
On Availability QoS for Replicated Multimedia Service and Content....Pages 313-326
An Open Middleware Architecture for Network-Integrated Multimedia....Pages 327-338
Security Attributes Based Digital Rights Management....Pages 339-352
An Active Network Approach to Support Multimedia Relays....Pages 353-364
Internet Multimedia - Streaming Media (Tutorial)....Pages 365-365
Internet Middleware (Tutorial)....Pages 366-366
IP Network Monitoring and Measurements: Techniques and Experiences (Tutorial)....Pages 367-367
Media Representation Standards for the New Millennium (Tutorial)....Pages 368-369

✦ Subjects

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