Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia [electronic resource] : Joint International Workshops on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Protocols for Multimedia Systems, IDMS/PROMS 2002, Coimbra, Portugal, November 26-29, 2002, Proceedings /

Performance of Protocols and Applications -- Optimal Traffic Shaping with Deterministic Guarantees Using GPS Scheduling -- Evaluation of Video Server Capacity with Regard to Quality of the Service in Interactive News-On-Demand Systems -- When FEC Speed up Data Access in P2P Networks -- Scalable Independent Multi-level Distribution in Multimedia Content Analysis -- Mobile Multimedia Systems I -- A Simulation Tool for Dimensioning and Performance Evaluation of the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network -- Vertical Handover Based Adaptation for Multimedia Applications in Pervasive Systems -- Avoiding DAD for Improving Real-Time Communication in MIPv6 Environments -- Design of OSGi Compatible Middleware Components for Mobile Multimedia Applications -- Standards and Related Issues -- A Fast QoS Adaptation Algorithm for MPEG-4 Multimedia Applications -- A Genetic Algorithm-Based Segmentation for Automatic VOP Generation -- Adaptive Motion Search Based on Block Difference and Motion Magnitude -- Quality of Service Issues I -- Does IPv6 Improve the Scalability of the Internet? -- Deploying New QoS Aware Transport Services -- A Rate Controller for Long-Lived TCP Flows -- Video Systems and Applications -- Low-Complexity Scalable Video Coding through Table Lookup VQ and Index Coding -- Accuracy vs. Speed Trade-Off in Detecting of Shots in Video Content for Abstracting Digital Video Libraries -- Distributed Video Documents Indexing and Content-Based Retrieving -- Voting Based Bandwidth Management in Multiparty Video Conferences -- Quality of Service Issues II -- Considering Non-real-time Traffic in Real-Time Packet Scheduling -- A Flexible Real-Time Hierarchical Multimedia Archive -- Tradeoffs between Signaling and Resource Utilization in DiffServ Networks with Hierarchical Aggregation -- Robust Delay Estimation for Internet Multimedia Applications -- Mobile Multimedia Systems II -- Supporting Mobile Multicast in Mobile Networks by Considering Host Mobility -- Fast Asynchronous Streaming Handoff -- Power Constraints: Another Dimension of Complexity in Continuous Media Playback -- Resource Management -- Replica Striping for Multi-resolution Video Servers -- On Availability QoS for Replicated Multimedia Service and Content -- An Open Middleware Architecture for Network-Integrated Multimedia -- Multimedia Support -- Security Attributes Based Digital Rights Management -- An Active Network Approach to Support Multimedia Relays -- Tutorials and Invited Program -- Internet Multimedia - Streaming Media (Tutorial) -- Internet Middleware (Tutorial) -- IP Network Monitoring and Measurements: Techniques and Experiences (Tutorial) -- Media Representation Standards for the New Millennium (Tutorial).