Management of Multimedia Networks and Services

We are delighted to present the proceedings of the 7th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services (MMNS). The MMNS 2004 conference was held in San Diego, California, USA on October 4 6,2004.Asinpreviousyears,theconferencebroughttogether aninternational audience of researchers and scientists from industry and academia who are - searching and developing state-of-the-art management systems, while creating a public venue for results dissemination and intellectual collaboration. This year marked a challenging chapter in the advancement of management s- tems for the wider management researchcommunity, with the growing compl- ities ofthe Internet, the proliferationof alternativewireless networksandmobile services, intelligent and high-speed networks, scalable multimedia services, and the convergence of computing and communications for data and voice delivery. Contributions from the research community met this challenge with 84 paper submissions; 26 selected high-quality papers were subsequently selected to form the MMNS 2004 technical program. The diverse topics in this year s program included novel protocols in wireless systems, multimedia over wireless, mobility management, multimedia service control, proactive techniques for QoS mana- ment, MPLStra?cengineeringandresiliency,distributedsystems management, scalable multimedia systems, and adaptive methods for streaming multimedia.

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Inhalt
Multimedia over Wireless.- Improving Interactive Video in Wireless Networks Using Path Diversity.- A Bandwidth-Efficient Application Level Framing Protocol for H.264 Video Multicast over Wireless LANs.- Adaptive Video Streaming in Presence of Wireless Errors.- Adaptive Multimedia Streaming.- Content-Based Adaptation of Streamed Multimedia.- Performance Assessment of the Quality-Oriented Adaptation Scheme.- An Adaptive Batched Patch Caching Scheme for Multimedia Streaming.- Novel Protocols in Wireless Systems.- Dynamic Cell-Based MAC Protocol for Target Detection Applications in Energy-Constrained Wireless Networks.- Reliable Collaborative Decision Making in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Scalable Multimedia Systems.- Minimum-Cost Multicast Routing for Multi-layered Multimedia Distribution.- Efficient Management of Multimedia Attachments.- A New Class of Scheduling Policies for Providing Time of Service Guarantees in Video-on-Demand Servers.- MPLS: Bandwidth Provisioning and Control.- Bandwidth Constrained IP Multicast Traffic Engineering Without MPLS Overlay.- Weighted Fair RIO (WF-RIO) for Fair AF Bandwidth Allocation in a DiffServ-Capable MPLS Network.- Sub-network Based Hierarchical Segment Restoration in MPLS Network.- Distributed Systems Management.- Automated Validation of Service Configuration on Network Devices.- Agent-Based Mobile Multimedia Service Quality Monitoring.- A Performance-Oriented Management Information Model for the Chord Peer-to-peer Framework.- Proactive Quality of Service.- Real-Time Analysis of Delay Variation for Packet Loss Prediction.- SLA-Driven Flexible Bandwidth Reservation Negotiation Schemes for QoS Aware IP Networks.- An Enhanced Virtual Time Simulator for Studying QoS Provisioning of Multimedia Services in UTRAN.- Multimedia Service Controland Management.- Event-Based Programming Structures for Multimedia Information Flows.- sipc, a Multi-function SIP User Agent.- Optimizing Continuous Media Delivery by Multiple Distributed Servers to Multiple Clients Using a Genetic Algorithm.- Mobility: Control and Management.- Providing Seamless Mobility with Competition Based Soft Handover Management.- Large-Scale Mobile Multimedia Service Management in Next Generation Networks.- Mobility Prediction in Wireless Networks Using Neural Networks.