Multimedia Transport and Teleservices International COST 237 Workshop, Vienna, Austria, November 13 - 15, 1994. Proceedings

This volume presents the proceedings of the International COST 237 Workshop, held in Vienna in November 1994 in the framework of the CEC COST 237 Multimedia Telecommunications Services Projects.
The 24 papers presented in revised version were selected from 46 submissions; they are organized in sections on teleservices, multimedia mail, archiving and retrieving; teleservice support; quality of service and synchronization; multipeer communication; broadband network transport issues; and variable bit rate video coding transport.

Towards a complete multimedia mail: Use of MHEG in standard messaging systems.- A mail-based teleservice architecture for archiving and retrieving dynamically composable multimedia documents.- The global store server — a multimedia teleservice component.- From broadband network services to a distributed multimedia support-environment.- Managing shared ephemeral teleconferencing state: Policy and mechanism.- Computational components for synchronous cooperation on multimedia information.- A binding architecture for multimedia networks.- Implementation of a end-to-end quality of service management scheme.- A formal description technique supporting expression of quality of service and media synchronization.- On the synchronization mechanisms for multimedia integrated services networks.- Efficient support for multiparty communication.- QoS negotiation for multicast communications.- Support for high-performance multipoint multimedia services.- Providing support for data transfer in a new networking environment.- Congestion avoidance for video over IP networks.- Network layer scaling: Congestion Control in multimedia communication with heterogenous networks and receivers.- Resource requirements for VBR Mpeg traffic in interactive applications.- Transmission of MPEG2 applications over ATM networks.- Protocols for multimedia conferencing — an introduction to the ITU-T T.120 series.- A platform for multimedia telecooperation bridging endsystem heterogeneity.- A scheme for multimedia and hypermedia synchronization.- Integration of existing applications into a conference system.- The CIO multimedia communication platform.- Broadband multimedia and collaboration tools. IDEA project.