Issues related to the provision of advanced multimedia services are
increasingly of interest to the research community.
In parallel, the need for a rapid definition of standards for new technologies in this area is encouraging the creation of consortia where manufacturers, telecommunication operators and researchers can exchange ideas and experiences to allow new products and services to be rapidly developed.
The 1996 COST 237 workshop will be the third of a series of symposia focused on the integration of advanced networking services and multimedia applications. The previous workshops in Vienna (1994) and Copenhagen (1995) hosted sessions on topics including teleservices support, Quality of Service semantics, multipeer communication, and broadband communication transport issues. Protocols and mechanisms for cooperative multimedia applications are currently a prime focus for many standardization and institutional bodies. Among these are the ATM Forum, the IETF, DAVIC, TINA, ITU, and ISO. A major goal of this third workshop is to present the latest research developments that may be of interest to these various bodies and to encourage an exchange of experiences.
COST 237 is concerned with the broad range of multimedia applications imposing various characteristics on multimedia communication services (interactive services involving stored media, real-time communication, asynchronous and synchronous communication, etc. ). The project participants consider that progress in all these areas requires the development of an architectural model of multimedia teleservices based on generic building blocks. In addition, to support large scale distributed multimedia applications with acceptable Quality of Service, the transport service must be extended to support multicast/multipeer connectivity and to integrate high-speed communication support -- especially ATM.
Thus, the theme of the 1996 workshop will focus on teleservices and communications support for distributed multimedia applications. In this third workshop, particular emphasis will be placed on architectural and implementation aspects of these key services and support areas.
Important topics for the workshop include (but are not limited to):
* Teleservices architecture
* From teleservices to specific applications
* Wide-area Multimedia collaboration tools and services
* Multimedia in distributed systems platforms
* Security for multimedia teleservices
* End-system support for multimedia
* Media synchronisation services
* End-to-end QoS support
* Multipeer transport services
* Protocols for multicasting
* Mechanisms to support media-scaling
* Distributed control in heterogeneous multimedia networks
* Application-oriented design
* QoS semantics for the service providers
* QoS pricing
* Impact of multimedia on OSI and TCP/IP
Papers should be less than 20 pages long, single spaced, and MUST be
submitted in postscript format by electronic mail to
cost237-conf@ds.unina.it
Information on paper submission
can be obtained from the same address and at
http://www.unina.it/cost237-conf.html
All papers are subject to a standard reviewing process. The proceedings of the workshop will be published by a major publisher and will be available for participants at the event.
The Workshop Secretary may be contacted at:
Mrs Raffaella Calabretta,
Third COST 237 Workshop Secretariat,
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica,
Universita' di Napoli Federico II,
Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy
Phone: +39 81 7683647
Fax: +39 81 7683186
E-mail: cost237-conf@ds.unina.it
Information on the conference registration and venue will be available at the following contact points:
Third COST 237 Workshop
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,
Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors,
Campus Nord. Modul D6. Gran Capita sn.
08071 BARCELONA, Spain
Fax + 34 3 401 7113
E-mail: cost237-MMTELSA96@fib.upc.es
http://www-fib.upc.es/~cost237/
Papers due: 20th August, 1996 (EXTENDED DEADLINE)
Acceptance notification: 2nd September, 1996
Final paper due: 1st October, 1996
Andre Danthine U. of Liege, Belgium (Chair) Theodoros Bozios Intracom, Greece Christophe Diot INRIA, France Jordi Domingo-Pascual U. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Wolfgang Effelsberg U. of Mannheim, Germany Serge Fdida MASI, France Domenico Ferrari U. Cattolica at Piacenza, Italy Jose Guimaraes ADETTI, Portugal David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Villy Iversen Technical U. of Denmark, DK Borka Jerman-Blazic Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia Helmut Leopold Alcatel, Austria Vassili Loumos NTUA, Greece Radu Popescu-Zeletin GMD-Fokus, Germany Sandor Stefler PKI, Hungary Giorgio Ventre U. of Napoli, Italy
Giorgio Ventre U. of Napoli Federico II, Italy (Chair) Patrick Baker HP Labs, UK Torsten Braun IBM ENC, Germany Augusto Casaca INESC, Portugal Geoff Coulson Lancaster U., UK Jon Crowcroft UCL, UK Andre Danthine U. of Liège, Belgium Michel Diaz LAAS/CNRS, France Christophe Diot INRIA, France Wolfgang Effelsberg U. of Mannheim, Germany Serge Fdida MASI, France Domenico Ferrari U. Cattolica at Piacenza, Italy David Hutchison Lancaster U., UK Villy B. Iversen Technical University, Denmark Marjory Johnson RIACS, USA Helmut Leopold Alcatel, Austria Benoit Macq U. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Jordi Domingo-Pascual U. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Ramon Puigjaner U. de les Illes Balears, Spain Radu Popescu-Zeletin GMD-Fokus, Germany Aruna Seneviratne UTS, Australia Otto Spaniol T.U. Aachen, Germany Jean-Bernard Stefani CNET, Paris, France Ralf Steinmetz Technical U. of Darmstadt, Germany Harmen van As Vienna Institute of Technology, Austria Martina Zitterbart T.U. Braunschweig, Germany
Jordi Domingo-Pascual U. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Josep Sole-Pareta U. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Xavier Martinez-Alvarez U. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Joan Vila-Sallent U. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Ciaran O'Colmain Norcontel, Ireland