Interactive Multimedia on Next Generation Networks

Wireless Multimedia Systems.- The Impact of Wireless Device Access on Content Delivery Networks.- Adaptive Access Regulation for VBR Video Streams.- Performance Evaluation of Live Video Streaming Service in 802.11b WLAN Environment under Different Load Conditions.- Packetization Scheme for Streaming High-Quality Audio over Wireless Links.- Communication Protocols for Multimedia.- Preserving Established Communications in IPv6 Multi-homed Sites with MEX.- Observations on Equation-Based Estimation of TCP-Compatible Rate for Multi-rate Multicast Scenarios.- Smoothing the TCP Rate by Learning the Delay versus Window Size Dependency.- KOM ScenGen The Swiss Army Knife for Simulation and Emulation Experiments.- Scheduling Issues.- The Effect of Per-input Shapers on the Delay Bound in Networks with Aggregate Scheduling.- Scheduling and Quality Differentiation in Differentiated Services.- Caching.- Size-Distortion Optimized Proxy Caching for Robust Transmission of MPEG-4 Video.- Design and Performance Evaluation of a Price-Based Cache Algorithm for Mobile Web Services.- Quality of Service Architectures.- Admission Control and Resource Reservation Framework for the OMODIS QoS Framework.- Efficient Reservation-Based QoS Architecture.- Performance Evaluation of the Preemptive Bandwidth Allocation Protocol.- Impact of Network Topology on the Performance of Budget Based Network Admission Control Methods.- Novel Communication Services.- Perceptual Network Metaphors: Breaking the Network Transparency Paradigm.- Quality Differentiation with Source Shaping and Forward Error Correction.- Mapping UMTS Bearers to DiffServ PHBs.- Enhancing the Coexistence of Unicast and Multicast Sessions in Diffserv Architecture.- Middleware.- Session Sharing as Middleware Service for Distributed MultimediaApplications.- Evaluation of Middleware for Distributed Objects on Handheld Devices.- Infrastructure.- Spatio-temporal QoS Pattern Analysis in Large Scale Internet Environment.- Jungle Issues in Class-Based Routing.- Second-Chance Auctions for Multimedia Session Pricing.- Efficient Offline Certificate Revocation.- IP Telephony.- Packetization and Silence Influence on VoIP Traffic Profiles.- Using Context Information to Avoid Service Interactions in IP Telephony.- Multimedia Applications.- cPost-it: Context-Based Information Sharing System.- Content Based Localized Robust Audio Watermarking.- A Mixed XML-JavaBeans Approach to Developing T-learning Applications for the Multimedia Home Platform.- A Multimedia, Multichannel, and Personalized News Provider.- Encoding.- Energy-Scalable Motion Estimation for Low-Power Multimedia Applications.- Pruned Mode Decision based on Variable Block Sizes Motion Compensation for H.264.