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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144918503321

Titolo

From Multimedia Services to Network Services [[electronic resource] ] : 4th International COST 237 Workshop, Lisboa, Portugal, December 15-19, 1997. Proceedings / / edited by Andre Danthine, Christophe Diot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1997

ISBN

3-540-69671-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 1997.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 188 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1356

Disciplina

006.7

Soggetti

Computer networks

Application software

Multimedia systems

Electrical engineering

Computer Communication Networks

Computer Applications

Multimedia Information Systems

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Communications Engineering, Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Operator based composition of structured multimedia presentations -- SECCO — support environment for electronic commerce -- A bridge for heterogeneous communication between CORBA and DCE -- Distributed connection management for real-time multimedia services -- Evaluation of different video encryption methods for a secure multimedia conferencing gateway -- The FreeBSD audio driver -- Cell discarding mechanisms with minimum flow quality -- Implementing the digital storage media — command and control (DSM-CC) standard in the framework of an on-line service -- Resource selection in heterogeneous communication environments using the teleservice descriptor -- AMnet: Active multicasting network -- Impact of virtual group structure on multicast performance.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International



COST 237 Workshop, held in Lisboa, Portugal, in December 1997 of the European COST Programme on Multimedia Telecommunication Services. The 12 revised full papers presented were selected from 24 submissions. The topics covered include multimedia presentation, QoS Control, electronic commerce, CORBA and DCE, real-time multimedia, multimedia conferenceing, multicast networking, heterogeneous communications environments, and others.