This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International COST 237 Workshop, held in Lisboa, Portugal, in December 1997 of the European COST Programme on Multimedia Telecommunication Services. The 12 revised full papers presented were selected from 24 submissions. The topics covered include multimedia presentation, QoS Control, electronic commerce, CORBA and DCE, real-time multimedia, multimedia conferenceing, multicast networking, heterogeneous communications environments, and others.
Author(s): Chérif Keramane, Andrzej Duda (auth.), André Danthine, Christophe Diot (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1356
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 188
Tags: Multimedia Information Systems; Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Communications Engineering, Networks
Operator based composition of structured multimedia presentations....Pages 1-32
SECCO — support environment for electronic commerce....Pages 33-44
A bridge for heterogeneous communication between CORBA and DCE....Pages 45-58
Distributed connection management for real-time multimedia services....Pages 59-74
Evaluation of different video encryption methods for a secure multimedia conferencing gateway....Pages 75-89
The FreeBSD audio driver....Pages 90-104
Cell discarding mechanisms with minimum flow quality....Pages 105-121
Implementing the digital storage media — command and control (DSM-CC) standard in the framework of an on-line service....Pages 122-131
Resource selection in heterogeneous communication environments using the teleservice descriptor....Pages 132-153
AMnet: Active multicasting network....Pages 154-164
Impact of virtual group structure on multicast performance....Pages 165-180
