This volume presents the proceedings of the International COST 237 Workshop, held in Vienna in November 1994 in the framework of the CEC COST 237 Multimedia Telecommunications Services Projects.
The 24 papers presented in revised version were selected from 46 submissions; they are organized in sections on teleservices, multimedia mail, archiving and retrieving; teleservice support; quality of service and synchronization; multipeer communication; broadband network transport issues; and variable bit rate video coding transport.
Author(s): Brigitte Kervella, Valérie Gay, Eric Horlait (auth.), D. Hutchison, A. Danthine, H. Leopold, G. Coulson (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 882
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 384
Tags: Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computer Communication Networks; Document Preparation and Text Processing; Input/Output and Data Communications; Communications Engineering, Networks
Towards a complete multimedia mail: Use of MHEG in standard messaging systems....Pages 1-13
A mail-based teleservice architecture for archiving and retrieving dynamically composable multimedia documents....Pages 14-34
The global store server — a multimedia teleservice component....Pages 35-46
From broadband network services to a distributed multimedia support-environment....Pages 47-68
Managing shared ephemeral teleconferencing state: Policy and mechanism....Pages 69-88
Computational components for synchronous cooperation on multimedia information....Pages 89-102
A binding architecture for multimedia networks....Pages 103-123
Implementation of a end-to-end quality of service management scheme....Pages 124-144
A formal description technique supporting expression of quality of service and media synchronization....Pages 145-167
On the synchronization mechanisms for multimedia integrated services networks....Pages 168-184
Efficient support for multiparty communication....Pages 185-198
QoS negotiation for multicast communications....Pages 199-218
Support for high-performance multipoint multimedia services....Pages 219-240
Providing support for data transfer in a new networking environment....Pages 241-255
Congestion avoidance for video over IP networks....Pages 256-273
Network layer scaling: Congestion Control in multimedia communication with heterogenous networks and receivers....Pages 274-293
Resource requirements for VBR Mpeg traffic in interactive applications....Pages 294-309
Transmission of MPEG2 applications over ATM networks....Pages 310-321
Protocols for multimedia conferencing — an introduction to the ITU-T T.120 series....Pages 322-333
A platform for multimedia telecooperation bridging endsystem heterogeneity....Pages 334-339
A scheme for multimedia and hypermedia synchronization....Pages 340-345
Integration of existing applications into a conference system....Pages 346-355
The CIO multimedia communication platform....Pages 356-367
Broadband multimedia and collaboration tools. IDEA project....Pages 368-377
