Management of multimedia networks and services : 7th IFIP/IEEE International Conference, MMNS 2004, San Diego, CA, USA, October 3-6, 2004 : proceedings

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 Control and 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.