Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Services

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the first European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Services, IDMS'96, held in Berlin, Germany in March 1996.
The 21 revised papers included were carefully selected for presentation at the workshop; they examine current and new approaches to interactive distributed multimedia systems and services from different points of view, including research and development, management, and users. Among the topics addressed are application development support, multimedia services on demand, multimedia conferencing, multimedia networking, continuous-media streams, multimedia experiments.

Inhalt
Heidi-II: A software architecture for ATM network based distributed multimedia systems.- Multimedia architecture to support requirements analysis.- MHEG 5 Standardized presentation objects for the Set Top Unit environment.- GLASS-Studio: An open authoring environment for distributed multimedia applications.- Television information filtering through speech recognition.- Event and action representation and composition for multimedia application scenario modelling.- Interactive video and remote control via the World Wide Web.- Radio on demand.- Design of an immersive teleconferencing application.- The secure conferencing user agent A tool to provide secure conferencing with Mbone multimedia conferencing applications.- Personal mobility for multimedia services in the Internet.- A security architecture for Tenet Scheme 2.- Features of the ACCOPI multimedia transport service.- Video communication and media scaling system Xnetvideo: Design and implementation.- Scheduling mechanisms reducing contention situations in multimedia systems.- QoS filters: Addressing the heterogeneity gap.- Deterministic admission control strategies in video servers with variable bit rate streams.- A control system for an interactive Video on Demand server handling variable data rates.- A synchronization scheme for stored multimedia streams.- An architecture for a distributed stream synchronization service.- Comenius The virtual classroom.