Technical Program



Session A: Multipeer and Group Communication
Chair: Serge Fdida, Laboratoire MASI, France.

A Group and Session Management System for Distributed Multimedia Applications.
E. Wilde, P. Freiburghaus, D. Koller, B. Plattner,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland.

Low-cost ATM Multicast Routing with Constrained Delays.
A. G. Waters, J. S. Crawford, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

Adding Scalability to Transport Level Multicast.
M. Hofmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.



Session B: Quality of Service
Chair: André Danthine, University of Liège, Belgium.

On Realizing a Broadband Kernel for Multimedia Networks.
M. C. Chan, J.-F. Huard, A. A. Lazar, K.-S. Lim, Columbia University, USA.

Specifying QoS for Multimedia Communications within Distributed Programming Environments.
D. G. Waddington, G. Coulson, D. Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK.

Generic Conversion of Communication Media for Supporting Personal Mobility.
T. Pfeifer, R. Popescu-Zeletin, Technical University of Berlin, Germany.



Session C: Applications and Teleservices
Chair: Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK.

A Framework for the Deployment of New Services Using Hypermedia Distributed Systems.
Á. Almeida, INESC, Portugal.

ISABEL: A CSCW Application for the Distribution of Events.
J. Quemada, T. de Miguel, A. Azcorra, S. Pavon, J. Salvachua, M. Petit, D. Larrabeiti, T. Robles, G. Huecas, Universidad Polit\'ecnica de Madrid, Spain.

The Bookshop Project: An Austrian Interactive Multimedia Application Case Study.
H. Leopold, R. Hirn, Alcatel Austria AG, Austria.



Session D: Multimedia Protocols and Platforms
Chair: Helmut Leopold, Alcatel Austria, Austria.

Issues in the Design of a New Network Protocol.
M. Degermark, Luleå University, Sweden,
S. Pink, Luleå University and Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden.

Source and Channel Coding for Mobile Multimedia Communications.
A. H. Sadka, F. Eryirtlu, A. M. Kondoz, University of Surrey, UK.

Developing a Conference Application on Top of an Advanced Signalling Infrastructure.
R. J. Huis in't Veld, Philips Multimedia Bussines Networks,
A.-N. Ladhani, B. van der Waaij, I. A. Widya, University of Twente,
F. Moelaert El-Hadidy, J. P. C. Verhoosel, Telematics Research Centre,
The Netherlands.



Session E: Performance Studies
Chair: Christophe Diot, INRIA, France.

New Network and ATM Adaptation Layers for Real-Time Multimedia Applications: A Performance Study Based on Psychophysics.
X. Garcia Adanez, O. Verscheure, J.-P. Hubaux,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland.

Multimedia Applications on a Unix SVR4 Kernel: Performance Study.
D. Bourges Waldegg, N. Lagha, J.-P. Le Narzul, Telecom Bretagne, France.

Perceptual Video Quality and Activity Metrics: Optimization of Video Services Based on MPEG-2 Encoding.
O. Verscheure, J.-P. Hubaux,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland.


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