Enabling group communication is one of the major challenges for the future Internet. Various issues ranging from services and applications to protocols and infrastructure have to be addressed. Moreover, they need to be studied from various angles and therefore involve skills in multiple areas. COST264wascreatedtocontributetothisinternationale?orttowardsgroup communication and related technologies. The European COST framework is ideal for establishing a new community of interest, providing an open forum for ideas, and also supporting young researchers in the ?eld. The COST264 action, o?cially started in late 1998, aims at leveraging the European research in this areaandcreatingintensiveinteractionattheinternationallevel.Tothispurpose, COST264 decided to organize an annual technical workshop, the “International Workshop on Networked Group Communication”. NGC’99 in Pisa is the ?rst event of the series. Despitethisbeingthe?rstworkshopanddespitetheveryshorttimebetween the Call for Papers and the deadline for submissions, and the other con?icting andmoreestablishedevents,theCallforPapersofNGC’99washighlysuccessful: we received 49 papers, of which 18 were selected to compose the basis of the technical program. We hope you will enjoy our paper selection, which is the VI Preface core of these proceedings, and addresses important issues in the research and development of networked group communication. In addition to refereed contributions, we scheduled two keynote speakers (Christophe Diot and Steve Deering), and four invited talks by Ken Birman (Cornell), Bob Briscoe (BT), Radia Perlman (SUN), Tony Speakman (CISCO).
Author(s): Tina Wong, Randy Katz, Steven McCanne (auth.), Luigi Rizzo, Serge Fdida (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1736
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 338
Tags: Computer Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Multimedia Information Systems; Communications Engineering, Networks
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A Preference Clustering Protocol for Large-Scale Multicast Applications....Pages 1-18
Layered Multicast Group Construction for Reliable Multicast Communications....Pages 19-35
Building Groups Dynamically: A CORBA Group Self-Design Service....Pages 36-53
Issues in Designing a Communication Architecture for Large-Scale Virtual Environments....Pages 54-71
HyperCast: A Protocol for Maintaining Multicast Group Members in a Logical Hypercube Topology....Pages 72-89
Support for Reliable Sessions with a Large Number of Members....Pages 90-107
Distributed Core Multicast (DCM): A Multicast Routing Protocol for Many Groups with Few Receivers....Pages 108-125
A Distributed Recording System for High Quality MBone Archives....Pages 126-143
Reducing Replication of Data in a Layered Video Transcoder....Pages 144-151
Providing Interactive Functions through Active Client-Buffer Management in Partitioned Video Multicast VoD Systems....Pages 152-169
A Multicast Transport Protocol for Reliable Group Applications....Pages 170-187
Efficient Buffering in Reliable Multicast Protocols....Pages 188-203
Native IP Multicast Support in MPLS....Pages 204-215
Cyclic Block Allocation : A New Scheme for Hierarchical Multicast Address Allocation....Pages 216-234
Survivable ATM Group Communications Using Disjoint Meshes, Trees, and Rings....Pages 235-243
The Direction of Value Flow in Connectionless Networks....Pages 244-269
Techniques for Making IP Multicast Simple and Scalable....Pages 270-285
Watercasting: Distributed Watermarking of Multicast Media....Pages 286-300
MARKS: Zero Side Effect Multicast Key Management Using Arbitrarily Revealed Key Sequences....Pages 301-320
Multicast Service Differentiation in Core-Stateless Networks....Pages 321-338
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