Multimedia, Telecommunications, and Applications: Third International COST 237 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, November 25 - 27, 1996, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1185)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International COST 237 Workshop, held in Barcelona, Spain, in November 1996. The 15 revised full papers presented in the volume were carefully selected from a total of 34 submissions by COST project participants as well as from outside. The papers are organized in sections on multipeer and group communication, quality of service, applications and teleservices, multimedia protocols and platforms, and performance studies. A group and session management system for distributed multimedia applications....Pages 1-22 Low-cost ATM multicast routing with constrained delays....Pages 23-40 Adding scalability to transport level multicast....Pages 41-55 On realizing a broadband kernel for multimedia networks....Pages 56-74 Specifying QoS for multimedia communications within distributed programming environments....Pages 75-103 Generic conversion of communication media for supporting personal mobility....Pages 104-129 A framework for the deployment of new services using hypermedia distributed systems....Pages 130-136 ISABEL: A CSCW application for the distribution of events....Pages 137-153 The bookshop project: An Austrian interactive multimedia application case study....Pages 154-168 Issues in the design of a new network protocol....Pages 169-182 Source and channel coding for mobile multimedia communications....Pages 183-200 Developing a conference application on top of an advanced signalling infrastructure....Pages 201-215 New Network and ATM Adaptation Layers for real-time multimedia applications: A performance study based on psychophysics....Pages 216-231 Multimedia applications on a unix SVR4 kernel: performance study....Pages 232-248 Perceptual video quality and activity metrics: Optimization of video service based on MPEG-2 encoding....Pages 249-265

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International COST 237 Workshop, held in Barcelona, Spain, in November 1996.
The 15 revised full papers presented in the volume were carefully selected from a total of 34 submissions by COST project participants as well as from outside. The papers are organized in sections on multipeer and group communication, quality of service, applications and teleservices, multimedia prools and platforms, and performance studies.

Computer communications in the last years can, when looking from the level of a user of communication systems, be seen as focusing on two aspects, which are multimedia and multipoint communications.