Interactive Multimedia and Next Generation Networks

1. Front Matter

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2. VoIP and Audio Transport

   1. Minimising Perceived Latency in Audio-Conferencing Systems over Application-Level Multicast

      • Nick Blundell, Laurent Mathy

      Pages 1-12

   2. Background Noise Influence on VoIP Traffic Profile

      • Rafael Estepa, Juan Vozmediano, Antonio Estepa

      Pages 13-24

   3. Adaptive VoIP Transmission over Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks

      • Abdelbasset Trad, Qiang Ni, Hossam Afifi

      Pages 25-36

3. Video Encoding I

   1. On Modeling MPEG Video at the Frame Level Using Self-Similar Processes

      • José C. López-Ardao, Pablo Argibay-Losada, Raúl F. Rodriguez-Rubio

      Pages 37-48

   2. Dynamic Bit-Rate Allocation with Fuzzy Measures for MPEG Transcoding

      • TaeYong Kim, Jong-Seung Park

      Pages 49-60

   3. A Modified Gaussian Model-Based Low Complexity Pre-processing Algorithm for H.264 Video Coding Standard

      • Won-Seon Song, Do-Reyng Kim, Seongsoo Lee, Min-Cheol Hong

      Pages 61-71

   4. Scalable Stereo Video Coding for Heterogeneous Environments

      • Sehchan Oh, Youngho Lee, Woontack Woo

      Pages 72-83

4. Multi-source Multimedia

   1. Multi-source Multimedia Conferencing over Single Source Multicast: An Application-Aware Approach

      • K. Katrinis, G. Parissidis, B. Brynjúlfsson, Ó. R. Helgason, G. Hjálmtýsson, B. Plattner

      Pages 84-95

   2. Distributed Multi-source Video Composition on High Capacity Networks

      • Yan Grunenberger, Phuong Hoang Nguyen, Gilles Privat, Jozef Hatala, Pascal Sicard

      Pages 96-107

5. Multicasting and Broadcasting

   1. Analysis of FEC Codes for Partially Reliable Media Broadcasting Schemes

      • Christoph Neumann, Vincent Roca

      Pages 108-119

   2. Supporting Mobility in Multicast: A Compromise Between Large and Small Group Multicast

      • Xavier Brouckaert, Olivier Bonaventure

      Pages 120-129

6. Scheduling Schemes

   1. A Comparison of Opportunistic Scheduling Algorithms for Streaming Media in High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA)

      • Arsalan Farrokh, Florian Blömer, Vikram Krishnamurthy

      Pages 130-142

   2. Adaptive Scheduling for Improved Quality Differentiation

      • Johanna Antila, Marko Luoma

      Pages 143-152

7. Video Encoding II

   1. Experimental Feasibility Evaluations of Heuristic Multi-Layering Schemes for QoS Adaptive MPEG-4 Video Streaming

      • Doo-Hyun Kim, Hyun-Kyu Kang

      Pages 153-164

   2. Residual Motion Coding Method for Error Resilient Transcoding System

      • June-Sok Lee, Goo-Rak Kwon, Jae-Won Kim, Kyung-Hoon Lee, Sung-Jea Ko

      Pages 165-174

   3. A Fast Motion Estimation Algorithm Based on Context-Adaptive Parallelogram Search Pattern

      • Chuanyan Tian, Chengdong Shen, SiKun Li

      Pages 175-186

   4. A Fast Successive Elimination Algorithm for Multiple Reference Images

      • Hyun-Soo Kang

      Pages 187-193

8. Content Management

   1. Using Dynamic Replication to Manage Service Availability in a Multimedia Server Cluster

      • Jonathan Dukes, Jeremy Jones

      Pages 194-205

   2. Design of a Hybrid CDN

      • Karl-André Skevik, Vera Goebel, Thomas Plagemann

      Pages 206-217

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.

• Cluster
• MPEG
• MPEG-4
• Processing
• Scala
• VoIP
• architecture
• complexity
• interactive distributed multimedia systems
• multimedia communications
• multimedia middleware
• protocols for multimedia systems
• qos
• ubiquitous computing
• wireless multimedia

• INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Planète Research Team, France

  Vincent Roca

• LSR-IMAG Laboratory, Grenoble, France

  Franck Rousseau

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