This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the first European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Services, IDMS'96, held in Berlin, Germany in March 1996.
The 21 revised papers included were carefully selected for presentation at the workshop; they examine current and new approaches to interactive distributed multimedia systems and services from different points of view, including research and development, management, and users. Among the topics addressed are application development support, multimedia services on demand, multimedia conferencing, multimedia networking, continuous-media streams, multimedia experiments.
Author(s): M. Ott, D. Reininger, G. Michelitsch (auth.), Berthold Butscher, Eckhard Moeller, Herwart Pusch (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1045
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 344
Tags: Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computer Communication Networks; Input/Output and Data Communications; Operating Systems; Business Information Systems; Communications Engineering, Networks
Heidi-II: A software architecture for ATM network based distributed multimedia systems....Pages 1-14
Multimedia architecture to support requirements analysis....Pages 15-31
MHEG 5 — Standardized presentation objects for the Set Top Unit environment....Pages 33-44
GLASS-Studio: An open authoring environment for distributed multimedia applications....Pages 45-58
Television information filtering through speech recognition....Pages 59-69
Event and action representation and composition for multimedia application scenario modelling....Pages 71-89
Interactive video and remote control via the World Wide Web....Pages 91-104
Radio on demand....Pages 105-116
Design of an immersive teleconferencing application....Pages 117-130
The secure conferencing user agent A tool to provide secure conferencing with Mbone multimedia conferencing applications....Pages 131-142
Personal mobility for multimedia services in the Internet....Pages 143-161
A security architecture for Tenet Scheme 2....Pages 163-174
Features of the ACCOPI multimedia transport service....Pages 175-194
Video communication and media scaling system “Xnetvideo”: Design and implementation....Pages 195-210
Scheduling mechanisms reducing contention situations in multimedia systems....Pages 211-226
QoS filters: Addressing the heterogeneity gap....Pages 227-243
Deterministic admission control strategies in video servers with variable bit rate streams....Pages 245-264
A control system for an interactive Video on Demand server handling variable data rates....Pages 265-276
A synchronization scheme for stored multimedia streams....Pages 277-295
An architecture for a distributed stream synchronization service....Pages 297-314
Comenius — The virtual classroom....Pages 315-321
