Multimedia, Telecommunications, and Applications

A group and session management system for distributed multimedia applications.- Low-cost ATM multicast routing with constrained delays.- Adding scalability to transport level multicast.- On realizing a broadband kernel for multimedia networks.- Specifying QoS for multimedia communications within distributed programming environments.- Generic conversion of communication media for supporting personal mobility.- A framework for the deployment of new services using hypermedia distributed systems.- ISABEL: A CSCW application for the distribution of events.- The bookshop project: An Austrian interactive multimedia application case study.- Issues in the design of a new network protocol.- Source and channel coding for mobile multimedia communications.- Developing a conference application on top of an advanced signalling infrastructure.- New Network and ATM Adaptation Layers for real-time multimedia applications: A performance study based on psychophysics.- Multimedia applications on a unix SVR4 kernel: performance study.- Perceptual video quality and activity metrics: Optimization of video service based on MPEG-2 encoding.