Management of Multimedia on the Internet

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on the Management of Multimedia Networks and Services, MMNS 2002, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in October 2002.The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 76 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service management, management of wireless multimedia, bandwidth sharing protocols, distributed video architectures, management systems, differentiated network services, user level traffic adaptation, and multicast congestion control.

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Service Management.- A QoS Network Management System for Robust and Reliable Multimedia Services.- Federated Accounting Management System Architecture for Multimedia Service Usage Management.- Policy-Based Quality of Service and Security Management for Multimedia Services on IP Networks in the RTIPA Project.- Formal Modeling of Service Session Management.- Management of Wireless Multimedia.- Network Requirement for Management of Multimedia over Wireless Channel.- Agile Systems Manager for Enterprise Wireless Networks.- System Performance of HiperLAN/2.- Bandwidth Sharing Protocols.- Streaming Media Congestion Control Using Bandwidth Estimation.- Signaling Protocol for Session-Aware Popularity-Based Resource Allocation.- Distributed Video Architectures.- A Scalable Video Server Using Intelligent Network Attached Storage.- On Proxy-Caching Mechanisms for Cooperative Video Streaming in Heterogeneous Environments.- Management Systems.- Using CORBA's Advanced Services to Enhance the Integrity of QoS Management Programmable Networks.- Remote Multicast Monitoring Using the RTP MIB.- Active Technology as an Efficient Approach to Control DiffServ Networks: The DACA Architecture.- Efficient Implementation of Packet Scheduling Algorithm on High-Speed Programmable Network Processors.- Differentiated Network Services.- Distributed Dynamic Capacity Contracting: A Congestion Pricing Framework for Diff-Serv.- Fair Stateless Aggregate Traffic Marking Using Active Queue Management Techniques.- A Dynamic Marking Scheme of Assured Service for Alleviating Unfairness among Service Level Agreements.- Minimizing Transmission Costs through Adaptive Marking in Differentiated Services Networks.- Dynamic QoS Adaptation Using COPS and Network Monitoring Feedback.- User Level Traffic Adaptation.- Design and Implementation of an Application Layer Protocol for Reducing UDP Traffic Based on User Hints and Policies.- A Management Framework for Service Personalization.- Efficient Access Using Hierarchical WML Decks for Multimedia Services under Wireless and Mobile Networks.- Roaming Scenarios Based on SIP.- Multicast Congestion Control.- Low-Weight Congestion Control for Multi-sender Applications.- Routing-Based Video Multicast Congestion Control.- Random Early Detection Assisted Layered Multicast.