Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video: Third International Workshop, La Jolla, California, USA, November 12-13, 1992. Proce [Paperback]

Technological advances are revolutionizing computers andnetworks to supportdigital video and audio, leading to newdesign spaces in computer systems and applications. Underthe surface of exciting multimedia technologies liesa mineof research problems. This volume presents the proceedingsof an international workshop which brought together theleading researchers in allaspects of multimedia computing,communication, storage, and applications.The field of multimedia has witnessed an explosive growth inthe last few years and the selection of papers for thisworkshop was extremely competitive. The volume contains 26full papers and 14 short papers selected from 128contributions, organized into parts on: network andoperating system support for multimedia; multimediaon-demand services; media synchronization; distributedmultimedia systems; network andoperating system support formultimedia; multimedia models, frameworks, and documentarchitectures; and multimedia workstations and platforms.Adaptive, best-effort delivery of digital audio and video across packet-switched networks.- The architecture of rattlesnake: A real-time multimedia network.- Beyond ST-II: Fulfilling the requirements of multimedia communication.- An approach to real-time scheduling  but is it really a problem for multimedia?.- Design and analysis of a grouped sweeping scheme for multimedia storage management.- Admission control algorithms for multimedia on-demand servers.- The design and implementation of a continuous media storage server.- Performance studies of digital video in a client/server environment.- Basic synchronisation concepts in multimedia systems.- Synchronization in Joint-Viewing environments.- Synchronization of multi-sourced multimedia data for heterogeneous target systems.- An intermedia skew control system for multimedia data presentation.- System support for efficient dynamically-configurable multi-party interactive multimedia applications.- Requirements flCB