Multimedia, Telecommunications, and Applications
Third International COST 237 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, November 25 - 27, 1996, Proceedings
Published on 19. November 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 279 pages
978-3-540-62096-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International COST 237 Workshop, held in Barcelona, Spain, in November 1996.
The 15 revised full papers presented in the volume were carefully selected from a total of 34 submissions by COST project participants as well as from outside. The papers are organized in sections on multipeer and group communication, quality of service, applications and teleservices, multimedia protocols and platforms, and performance studies.
The 15 revised full papers presented in the volume were carefully selected from a total of 34 submissions by COST project participants as well as from outside. The papers are organized in sections on multipeer and group communication, quality of service, applications and teleservices, multimedia protocols and platforms, and performance studies.
More details
Series
Edition
1996 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 279 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-62096-9 (9783540620969)
DOI
10.1007/BFb0020846
Schweitzer Classification
Content
A group and session management system for distributed multimedia applications.- Low-cost ATM multicast routing with constrained delays.- Adding scalability to transport level multicast.- On realizing a broadband kernel for multimedia networks.- Specifying QoS for multimedia communications within distributed programming environments.- Generic conversion of communication media for supporting personal mobility.- A framework for the deployment of new services using hypermedia distributed systems.- ISABEL: A CSCW application for the distribution of events.- The bookshop project: An Austrian interactive multimedia application case study.- Issues in the design of a new network protocol.- Source and channel coding for mobile multimedia communications.- Developing a conference application on top of an advanced signalling infrastructure.- New Network and ATM Adaptation Layers for real-time multimedia applications: A performance study based on psychophysics.- Multimedia applications on a unix SVR4 kernel: performance study.- Perceptual video quality and activity metrics: Optimization of video service based on MPEG-2 encoding.