Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Invited Presentation

   1. Energy-Efficient Hand-Held Multimedia Systems - Designing the Swiss Army Knife of Computing -

      • Gerard J. M. Smit

      Pages 1-2

3. Efficient Audio/Video Coding and Delivery

   1. Realisation of an Adaptive Audio Tool

      • Arnaud Meylan, Catherine Boutremans

      Pages 3-13

   2. A Robust JPEG Coder for a Partially Reliable Transport Service

      • Johan Garcia, Anna Brunstrom

      Pages 14-25

   3. A Dynamic RAM Cache for High Quality Distributed Video

      • Nicholas J. P. Race, Daniel G. Waddington, Doug Shepherd

      Pages 26-39

4. Multimedia Conferencing, Synchronization and Multicast

   1. Fast and Optimal Multicast-Server Selection Based on Receivers’ Preference

      • Akihito Hiromori, Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Keiichi Yasumoto, Teruo Higashino, Kenichi Taniguchi

      Pages 40-52

   2. Mcast: A Multicast Multimedia Communication Software Development Platform

      • Chung-Ming Huang, Hsu-Yang Kung

      Pages 53-64

   3. Enforcing Multipoint Multimedia Synchronisation in Videoconferencing Applications

      • Philippe Owezarski

      Pages 65-76

5. Communication, Control and Telephony over IP Networks

   1. Utility Based Inter-stream Adaptation of Layered Streams in a Multiple-Flow IP Session

      • Dimitrios Miras, Richard Jacobs, Vicky Hardman

      Pages 77-88

   2. An Interaction Control Architecture for Large Chairperson-Controlled Conferences over the Internet

      • Lukas Ruf, Thomas Walter, Bernhard Plattner

      Pages 89-103

   3. Using DMIF for Abstracting from IP-Telephony Signaling Protocols

      • R. Ackermann, V. Darlagiannis, U. Roedig, R. Steinmetz

      Pages 104-115

6. Invited Presentation

   1. Short-Range Connectivity with Bluetooth

      • J. C. Haartsen

      Pages 116-116

7. QoS Models and Architectures

   1. A QoS-Control Architecture for Object Middleware

      • L. Bergmans, A. van Halteren, L. Ferreira Pires, M. van Sinderen, M. Aksit

      Pages 117-131

   2. An Architecture for a Scalable Video-on-Demand Server Network with Quality-of-Service Guarantees

      • L. -O. Burchard, R. Lüling

      Pages 135-143

   3. Augmented Reliable Multicast CORBA Event Service (ARMS): A QoS-Adaptive Middleware

      • João Orvalho, Fernando Boavida

      Pages 144-157

   4. Middleware Support for Media Streaming Establishment Driven by User-Oriented QoS Requirements

      • Cristian Hesselman, Ing Widya, Aart van Halteren, Bart Nieuwenhuis

      Pages 158-171

8. Multimedia Applications and User Aspects

   1. Interaction of Video on Demand Systems with Human-Like Avatars and Hypermedia

      • Norbert Braun, Matthias Finke

      Pages 172-186

   2. How to Make a Digital Whiteboard Secure-Using JAVA-Cards for Multimedia Applications

      • Rüdiger Weis, Jürgen Vogel, Wolfgang Effelsberg, Werner Geyer, Stefan Lucks

      Pages 187-198

   3. How to Keep a Dead Man from Shooting

      • Martin Mauve

      Pages 199-204

   4. Building Web Resources for Natural Scientists

      • Paul van der Vet

      Pages 205-210

The first International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services (IDMS) was organized by Prof. K. Rothermel and Prof. W. Effelsberg, and took place in Stuttgart in 1992. It had the form of a national forum for discussion on multimedia issues related to communications. The succeeding event was "attached" as a workshop to the German Computer Science Conference (GI Jahrestagung) in 1994 in Hamburg, organized by Prof. W. Lamersdorf. The chairs of the third IDMS, E. Moeller and B. Butscher, enhanced the event to become a very successful international meeting in Berlin in March 1996. This short overview on the first three IDMS events is taken from the preface of the IDMS’97 proceedings (published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1309), written by Ralf Steinmetz and Lars Wolf. Both, Ralf Steinmetz as general chair and Lars Wolf as program chair of IDMS’97, organized an excellent international IDMS in Darmstadt. Since 1998, IDMS has moved from Germany to other European cities to emphasize the international character it had gained in the previous years. IDMS’98 was organized in Oslo by Vera Goebel and Thomas Plagemann at UniK – Center for Technology at Kjeller, University of Oslo. Michel Diaz, Phillipe Owezarski, and Patrick Sénac successfully organized the sixth IDMS event, again outside Germany. IDMS'99 took place in Toulouse at ENSICA. IDMS 2000 continued the tradition and was hosted in Enschede, the Netherlands.

• Information Society
• Interactive Multimedia
• Internet-Based Multimedia
• Middleware
• Multimedia Conferencing
• Multimedia Systems
• Networking
• Quality of Service
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Telecommunication Services
• Telecommunications
• multimedia

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