Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques - ECMAST'99

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Services & Applications

   1. The SICMA Teleteaching Trial on ADSL and Intranet networks

      • F. Cortes, V. Darlayiannis, M. Herreo, G. Kyriakaki, R. Lüling, Y. Maragoudakis et al.

      Pages 1-14

   2. Usability Assessment of Collaborative Shared-Space Telepresence Shopping Services

      • James Anderson, Rachael Vincent, Mervyn A. Jack

      Pages 15-25

   3. Risk Methodology for Multimedia Projects Assessments

      • Kjell Stordahl, Nils Kristian Elnesgaard, Leif Aarthun Ims, Borgar Tørre Olsen

      Pages 26-45

3. Multimedia Terminals

   1. Efficient End-Host Resource Management with Kernel Optimizations for Multimedia Applications

      • S. Lakshminarayanan, Karthikeyan Mahesh

      Pages 46-57

   2. SOMMIT Project: Enabling New Services for the Next Generation of Digital TV Receivers

      • Roberto Becchini, Gianluca De Petris, Mario Guglielmo, Alain Morvan

      Pages 58-73

4. Content Creation

   1. An Approach for Script-Based Broadcast Application Production

      • Andreas Kraft, Klaus Hofrichter

      Pages 74-82

   2. The ATLANTIC Audio Demonstration System

      • A. J. Mason, N. J. Yeadon

      Pages 84-96

   3. Object-Based Motion Parameterization Using Shape Adaptive Bilinear Warping

      • Ebroul Izquierdo, Fernando Lopes, Mohammed Ghanbari

      Pages 97-107

   4. MPEG-4 PC — Authoring and Playing of MPEG-4 Content for Local and Broadcast Applications

      • The MPEG-4 PC Consortium, P. Gerken, St. Schultz, G. Knabe, F. Casalino, G. Di Cagno et al.

      Pages 108-119

5. Physical Broadcast Infrastructure

   1. Single Frequency Networks for Digital Video Broadcasting

      • Jesús M. Fernández, J. Capdevila, R. García, S. Cabanillas, S. Mata, A. Mansilla et al.

      Pages 120-142

   2. The Return Channel in Collective Installations

      • M. A. Panduro, A. M. Molina, D. Rodríguez

      Pages 143-153

   3. Feasibility Model Implementation and Evaluation of an HFC S-CDMA Broadband Return Channel Concept

      • J. Enssle, H. Halbauer, J. Otterbach, G. Schwörer

      Pages 154-168

   4. Analysis of a Multiple Service MAC Layer For Two-Way Two-Layer LMDS Networks

      • T. Martin, J. You, A. Marshall

      Pages 169-180

6. Multimedia Over The Internet — Part I

   1. Integrating MPEG-4 into the Internet

      • Christine Guillemot, Stefan Wesner, Paul Christ

      Pages 181-196

   2. New Services on an Advanced Internet

      • Rui L. Aguiar, José Luís Oliveira

      Pages 197-211

   3. Adaptive Video on Demand Service on RSVP Capable Network

      • Carlos Veciana-Nogués, Jordi Domingo-Pascual

      Pages 212-227

   4. An Engineering Approach to QoS Provisioning over the Internet

      • Raffaele D’Albenzio, Simon Pietro Romano, Giorgio Ventre

      Pages 229-245

7. Multimedia Over The Internet — Part II

   1. A Charging Model for Sessions on the Internet

      • Nadia Kausar, Bob Briscoe, Jon Crowcroft

      Pages 246-261

   2. COMIQS System for Commercial Presentations on the Internet

      • Irek Defée, Jami Kangasoja, Mika Rustari, COMIQS consortium

      Pages 262-280

The liberalisation in the telecommunication market and thus the advent of competition has had a tremendous impact on business in this area. New operators have started to offer telecommunication services in competition with the classical national network operators. This in turn will have an impact on the market share, the tariff structure, the Quality of Service (QoS) and the services offered to the end customers. A way to maintain or increase revenue for network operators is to additionally offer new services to the customers. The final target is a so-called "Full Service Network (FSN)", which is capable of offering all types of bi-directional multimedia services. The provisioning of new telecommunication services in general and new multimedia services in particular is made possible by the availability of several new technologies as well as through advances in standardisation. R&D policies world-wide but especially in Europe have forced the development of new networking technologies such as ATM, xDSL and HFC as well as new video technologies as defined by DVB and DAVIC.

• Internet
• Internet Services
• Mobile Communications
• Multimedia
• Multimedia Services
• Telecommunications
• Videoconferencing
• security

• Telekom Austria Headquarters, Vienna, Austria

  Helmut Leopold

• Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecommunicación Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes (GTI), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  Narciso García

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