Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services -

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Invited Paper.- The Internet 2 QBONE Project Architecture and Phase 1 Implementation.- Network QoS.- Hardware Acceleration inside a Differentiated Services Access Node.- REDO RSVP: Efficient Signalling for Multimedia in the Internet.- QoS-aware Active Gateway for Multimedia Communication.- Application QoS.- A Study of the Impact of Network Loss and Burst Size on Video Streaming Quality and Acceptability.- Transport of MPEG-2 Video in a Routed IP Network.- Specification and Realization of the QoS Required by a Distributed Interactive Simulation Application in a New Generation Internet.- Mbone and Multicast.- A Multicasting Scheme Using Multiple MCSs in ATM Networks.- A Platform for the Study of Reliable Multicasting Extensions to CORBA Event Service.- MBone2Tel - Telephone Users Meeting the MBone.- Quality of Service Management for Teleteaching Applications Using the MPEG-4/DMIF.- Invited Paper.- IP Services Deployment: A US Carrier Strategy.- Adaptive Applications and Networks.- Network-Diffused Media Scaling for Multimedia Content Services.- Extended Package-Segment Model and Adaptable Applications.- Tailoring Protocols for Dynamic Network Conditions and User Requirements.- Design of an Integrated Environment for Adaptive Multimedia Document Presentation Through Real Time Monitoring.- New Trends in IDMS.- Authoring of Teletext Applications for Digital Television Broadcast.- Middleware Support for Multimedia Collaborative Applications over the Web: A Case Study.- The Virtual Interactive Presenter: A Conversational Interface for Interactive Television.- Advances in Coding.- A Video Compression Algorithm for ATM Networks with ABR Service, Using Visual Criteria.- Content-Fragile Watermarking Based on Content-Based Digital Signatures.- Invited Paper.- New Structuresfor the Next Generation of IDMS.- Conferencing.- Multi-drop VPs for Multiparty Videoconferencing on SONET/ATM Rings -- Architectural Design and Bandwidth Demand Analysis.- A Generic Scheme for the Recording of Interactive Media Streams.- A Framework for High Quality/Low Cost Conferencing Systems.- Video Servers.- A Novel Replica Placement Strategy for Video Servers.- Network Bandwidth Allocation and Admission Control for a Continuous Media File Server.- Design and Evaluation of Ring-Based Video Servers.- Position Papers.- Pricing for Differentiated Internet Services.- An Agent-Based Adaptive QoS Management Framework and Its Applications.- Improving the Quality of Recorded Mbone Sessions Using a Distributed Model.