Management of Multimedia Networks and Services 7th IFIP/IEEE International Conference, MMNS 2004, San Diego, CA, USA, October 3-6, 2004. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Netwoks and Services, MMNS 2004, held in San Diego, CA, USA in October 2004.
The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 papers submitted. The papers are organized in topical sections on multimedia over wireless, adaptive multimedia streaming, novel protocols in wireless systems, scalable multimedia systems, MPLS: bandwidth provisioning and control, distributed systems management, proactive quality of service, multimedia service control and management, and mobility: control and management.

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.