Multimedia networking : technology, management, and applications

In recent years rapid Internet growth has pushed the development of new multimedia applications in all aspects of life such as entertainment, communication, collaborative work and electronic commerce. Future applications will make use of different technologies like voice, data and video, but in order to make such a wide variety of multimedia applications successful, a number of technology and management issues must be addressed. Multimedia Networking: Technology, Management and Applications addresses the dynamic and efficient uses of resources – a fundamental aspect of multimedia networks. Geared toward professionals, educators and students alike, this exciting new book will detail current research and the future direction of multimedia networking. Machine generated contents note: Preface i Chapter 1 1 Managing Real-Time Distributed Multimedia Applications Vana Kalogeraki, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA Peter Michael Melliar-Smith, UC Santa Barbara, USA Louise E. Moser, UC Santa Barbara, USA Chapter 217 Building Internet Multimedia Applications: The Integrated Service Architecture and Media Frameworks Zhonghua Yang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Robert Gay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Chengzheng Sun, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Chee Kheong Siew, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Chapter 354 The Design and Performance of a CORBA Audio/Video Streaming Service Naga Surendran, Washington University-St. Louis, USA Yamuna Krishamurthy, Washington University-St. Louis, USA Douglas C. Schmidt, University of California, Irvine, USA Chapter 4102 MPEG-4 Facial Animation and its Application to a Videophone System for the Deaf Nikolaos Sarris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Michael G. Strintzis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Chapter 5126 News On Demand Mark T. Maybury, The MITRE Corporation, USA Chapter 6134 A CSCW with Reduced Bandwidth Requirements Based on a Distributed Processing Discipline Enhanced for Medical Purposes Iraklis Kamilatos, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece Michael G. Strintzis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece Chapter 7151 A Layered Multimedia Presentation Database for Distance Learning Timothy K Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Chapter 8172 QoS-Aware Digital Video Retrieval Application Tadeusz Czachorski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Stanislaw Jedrus, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Maciej Zakrzewicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Janusz Gozdecki, AGH University of Technology, Poland Piotr Pacyna, AGH University of Technology, Poland Zdzislaw Papir, AGH University of Technology, Poland Chapter 9186 Network Dimensioning for MPEG-2 Video Communications Using ATM Bhumip Khasnabish, Verizon Labs, Inc, USA Chapter 10222 VBR Traffic Shaping for Streaming of Multimedia Transmission Ray-I Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Meng-Chang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Ming-Tat Ko, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jan-Ming Ho, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Chapter 11237 RAC: A Soft-QoS Framework for Supporting Continuous Media Applications Wonjun Lee, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA Chapter 12255 A Model for Dynamic QoS Negotiation Applied to an MPEG4 Applications Silvia Giordano, ICA Institute, Switzerland Piergiorgio Cremonese, Wireless Architect, Italy Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Laboratoire de Reseaux de Communications, Switzerland M. Podesta, Whitehead Laboratory, Italy Chapter 13269 Playout Control Mechanisms for Speech Transmission over the Internet: Algorithms and Performance Results Marco Roccetti, Universita di Bologna, Italy Chapter 14290 Collaboration and Virtual Early Prototyping Using The Distributed Building Site Metaphor Fabien Costantini, CEDRIC, France Christian Toinard, CEDRIC, France Chapter 15333 Methods for Dealing with Dynamic Visual Data in Collaborative Applications-A Survey Binh Pham, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Chapter 16351 An Isochronous Approach to Multimedia Synchronization in Distributed Environments Zhonghua Yang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Robert Gay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Chengzheng Sun, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Chee Kheong Siew, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Abdul Sattar, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Chapter 17369 Introduction To Multicast Technology Gabor Hosszu, Budapest University of Technology & Economics, Hungary Chapter 18 . 412 IP Multicast: Inter Domain, Routing, Security and Address Allocation Antonio F. G6mez-Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain Pedro M. Ruiz, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Angel L. Mateo-Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Chapter 19441 Mobile Multimedia over Wireless Network Jiirgen Stauder, Thomson Multimedia, France Fazli Erbas, University of Hannover, Germany About the Authors473 Index482. In recent years, rapid Internet growth has pushed the development of new multimedia applications in all aspects of life, such as entertainment, communication, collaborative work and electronic commerce. Future applications will make use of different technologies like voice, data and video, but in order to make such a wide variety of multimedia applications successful, a number of technology and management issues must be addressed. Multimedia Networking: Technology, Management and Applications addresses the dynamic and efficient uses of resources -- a fundamental aspect of multimedia networks. This new book details current research and future direction of multimedia networking. Distributed multimedia applications are characterized by timing constraints and end-to-end quality of service (QoS) requirements, and therefore need efficient management mechanisms to respond to transient changes in the load or the availability of the resources.