Interactive Multimedia and Next Generation Networks: Second International Workshop on Multimedia Interactive Protocols and Systems, MIPS 2004, Grenoble, France, November 16-19, 2004. Proceedings

Nick Blundell, Laurent Mathy (auth.), Vincent Roca, Franck Rousseau (eds.)3540239286, 9783540239284, 9783540304937

Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (IDMS) and Protocols for Mul- media Systems (PROMS) have been two successful series of international events bringing together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry in all areas of multimedia systems. These two workshops successfully merged in 2003 and now constitute the MIPS workshop. After the outstanding MIPS 2003 workshop, organized in Naples, Italy, by GiorgioVentreandRobertoCanonico,fromtheUniversityofNaplesFedericoII, MIPS2004movedtoGrenoble,France. Followingthegreattradition,MIPS2004 was intended to contribute to scienti?c, strategic and practical advances in the area of distributed multimedia applications, protocols and intelligent mana- ment tools, with emphasis on their provision over novel network architectures. This is undoubtedly a rather broad area, which is con?rmed by the large range of topics that were addressed in the submitted (and accepted) papers. This year the Call for Papers attracted 74 submissions, essentially from – rope and Asia, plus a few contributions from North America, the Middle East, and Africa, for a total of 20 countries. We would like to express our warmest gratitude to all the authors, without whom organizing this event would have been impossible! Thanks to the outstanding work of the Program Committee and the ad- tional reviewers, 20 full-sized papers and 5 additional short papers were ?nally accepted, which was not an easy task. Like MIPS 2003, MIPS 2004 remained a highly selective event (33% acceptance ratio, including the short papers) which is the best warrant of a good program quality.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Minimising Perceived Latency in Audio-Conferencing Systems over Application-Level Multicast….Pages 1-12
Background Noise Influence on VoIP Traffic Profile….Pages 13-24
Adaptive VoIP Transmission over Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks….Pages 25-36
On Modeling MPEG Video at the Frame Level Using Self-Similar Processes….Pages 37-48
Dynamic Bit-Rate Allocation with Fuzzy Measures for MPEG Transcoding….Pages 49-60
A Modified Gaussian Model-Based Low Complexity Pre-processing Algorithm for H.264 Video Coding Standard….Pages 61-71
Scalable Stereo Video Coding for Heterogeneous Environments….Pages 72-83
Multi-source Multimedia Conferencing over Single Source Multicast: An Application-Aware Approach….Pages 84-95
Distributed Multi-source Video Composition on High Capacity Networks….Pages 96-107
Analysis of FEC Codes for Partially Reliable Media Broadcasting Schemes….Pages 108-119
Supporting Mobility in Multicast: A Compromise Between Large and Small Group Multicast….Pages 120-129
A Comparison of Opportunistic Scheduling Algorithms for Streaming Media in High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA)….Pages 130-142
Adaptive Scheduling for Improved Quality Differentiation….Pages 143-152
Experimental Feasibility Evaluations of Heuristic Multi-Layering Schemes for QoS Adaptive MPEG-4 Video Streaming….Pages 153-164
Residual Motion Coding Method for Error Resilient Transcoding System….Pages 165-174
A Fast Motion Estimation Algorithm Based on Context-Adaptive Parallelogram Search Pattern….Pages 175-186
A Fast Successive Elimination Algorithm for Multiple Reference Images….Pages 187-193
Using Dynamic Replication to Manage Service Availability in a Multimedia Server Cluster….Pages 194-205
Design of a Hybrid CDN….Pages 206-217
Using the Session Initiation Protocol for Connected Multimedia Services in a Ubiquitous Home Network Environment….Pages 218-229
The Digital Call Assistant: Determine Optimal Time Slots for Calls….Pages 230-241
Augmented E-commerce: Making Augmented Reality Usable in Everyday E-commerce with Laser Projection Tracking….Pages 242-251
Architecture and Protocols for the Protection and Management of Multimedia Information….Pages 252-263
Application of ‘Attack Trees’ Technique to Copyright Protection Protocols Using Watermarking and Definition of a New Transactions Protocol SecDP (Secure Distribution Protocol)….Pages 264-275
Digital Image Authentication Based on Turbo Codes….Pages 276-285
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