The liberalisation in the telecommunication market and thus the advent of competition has had a tremendous impact on business in this area. New operators have started to offer telecommunication services in competition with the classical national network operators. This in turn will have an impact on the market share, the tariff structure, the Quality of Service (QoS) and the services offered to the end customers. A way to maintain or increase revenue for network operators is to additionally offer new services to the customers. The final target is a so-called "Full Service Network (FSN)", which is capable of offering all types of bi-directional multimedia services. The provisioning of new telecommunication services in general and new multimedia services in particular is made possible by the availability of several new technologies as well as through advances in standardisation. R&D policies world-wide but especially in Europe have forced the development of new networking technologies such as ATM, xDSL and HFC as well as new video technologies as defined by DVB and DAVIC.
Author(s): F. Cortes, V. Darlayiannis, M. Herreo, G. Kyriakaki, R. Lüling, Y. Maragoudakis (auth.), Helmut Leopold, Narciso García (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1629
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 580
Tags: Multimedia Information Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Database Management; Computer Communication Networks; Communications Engineering, Networks
The SICMA Teleteaching Trial on ADSL and Intranet networks....Pages 1-14
Usability Assessment of Collaborative Shared-Space Telepresence Shopping Services....Pages 15-25
Risk Methodology for Multimedia Projects Assessments....Pages 26-45
Efficient End-Host Resource Management with Kernel Optimizations for Multimedia Applications....Pages 46-57
SOMMIT Project: Enabling New Services for the Next Generation of Digital TV Receivers....Pages 58-73
An Approach for Script-Based Broadcast Application Production....Pages 74-82
The ATLANTIC Audio Demonstration System....Pages 84-96
Object-Based Motion Parameterization Using Shape Adaptive Bilinear Warping....Pages 97-107
MPEG-4 PC — Authoring and Playing of MPEG-4 Content for Local and Broadcast Applications....Pages 108-119
Single Frequency Networks for Digital Video Broadcasting....Pages 120-142
The Return Channel in Collective Installations....Pages 143-153
Feasibility Model Implementation and Evaluation of an HFC S-CDMA Broadband Return Channel Concept....Pages 154-168
Analysis of a Multiple Service MAC Layer For Two-Way Two-Layer LMDS Networks....Pages 169-180
Integrating MPEG-4 into the Internet....Pages 181-196
New Services on an Advanced Internet....Pages 197-211
Adaptive Video on Demand Service on RSVP Capable Network....Pages 212-227
An Engineering Approach to QoS Provisioning over the Internet....Pages 229-245
A Charging Model for Sessions on the Internet....Pages 246-261
COMIQS System for Commercial Presentations on the Internet....Pages 262-280
The CATI Project: Charging and Accounting Technology for the Internet....Pages 281-296
A Conceptual Framework to Support Content-Based Multimedia Applications....Pages 297-315
High Level Description of Video Surveillance Sequences....Pages 316-331
Enabling Flexible Services Using XML Metadata....Pages 332-347
VIDAS Analysis/Synthesis Tools for Natural-to-Virtual Face Representation....Pages 348-363
Face Location and Recognition for Video Indexing in the Hypermedia Project....Pages 364-377
Object Articulation Based on Local 3D Motion Estimation....Pages 378-391
Three Dimensional Model Adaptation and Tracking of a Human Face....Pages 392-405
H.323 Videoconference over Native ATM....Pages 406-422
Some Design Issues of SRMTP, a Scalable Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol....Pages 423-440
A Multicast Gateway for Dial-In Lines....Pages 441-454
Fast Multimedia Encryption in JAVA....Pages 456-471
Watermarking in the MPEG-4 Context....Pages 472-492
Protecting Intellectual Proprietary Rights through Secure Interactive Contract Negotiation....Pages 493-514
Multimedia Dialogue Management in Agent-Based Open Service Environments....Pages 515-533
MEMO: The Specification of a Hybrid System for Interactive Broadcast and Internet Access using DAB and GSM....Pages 534-551
A Mobile Middleware Component Providing Voice Over IP Services to Mobile Users....Pages 552-563
Introducing Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Services....Pages 564-572
