7. MMNS 2004: San Diego, CA, USA
John B. Vicente, David Hutchison (Eds.): Management of Multimedia Networks and Services: 7th IFIP/IEEE International Conference, MMNS 2004, San Diego, CA, USA, October 2004, Proceedings. Springer 2004 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-23239-7
Multimedia over Wireless
Ahmed Abd El Al, Tarek N. Saadawi, Myung J. Lee: Improving Interactive Video in Wireless Networks Using Path Diversity. 1-12
Abdelhamid Nafaa, Yassine Hadjadj Aoul, Daniel Negru, Ahmed Mehaoua: A Bandwidth-Efficient Application Level Framing Protocol for H.264 Video Multicast over Wireless LANs. 13-25
Guang Yang, Mario Gerla, Medy Sanadidi: Adaptive Video Streaming in Presence of Wireless Errors. 26-38
Adaptive Multimedia Streaming

Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Philip Perry, Liam Murphy: Performance Assessment of the Quality-Oriented Adaptation Scheme. 50-62
ShaoHua Qin, Weihong He, Zimu Li, Jianping Hu: An Adaptive Batched Patch Caching Scheme for Multimedia Streaming. 63-73
Novel Protocols in Wireless Systems
Sonia Waharte, Raouf Boutaba: Dynamic Cell-based MAC Protocol for Target Detection Applications in Energy-Constrained Wireless Networks. 74-87
Theodore L. Willke, Nicholas F. Maxemchuk: Reliable Collaborative Decision Making in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. 88-101
Scalable Multimedia Systems
Hsu-Chen Cheng, Frank Yeong-Sung Lin: Minimum-Cost Multicast Routing for Multi-Layered Multimedia Distribution. 102-114
Nabil J. Sarhan, Chita R. Das: A New Class of Scheduling Policies for Providing Time of Service Guarantees in Video-On-Demand Servers. 127-139
MPLS: Bandwidth Provisioning and Control
Ning Wang, George Pavlou: Bandwidth Constrained IP Multicast Traffic Engineering Without MPLS Overlay. 140-151
Kenji Tsunekawa: Weighted Fair RIO (WF-RIO) for Fair AF Bandwidth Allocation in a DiffServ-Capable MPLS Network. 152-163
Hae-Joon Shin, Sang-Heon Shin, Young-Tak Kim: Sub-network based Hierarchical Segment Restoration in MPLS network. 164-175
Distributed Systems Management
Sylvain Hallé, Rudy Deca, Omar Cherkaoui, Roger Villemaire: Automated Validation of Service Configuration on Network Devices. 176-188
Man Li: Agent-Based Mobile Multimedia Service Quality Monitoring. 189-199
Guillaume Doyen, Emmanuel Nataf, Olivier Festor: A Performance-Oriented Management Information Model for the Chord Peer-to-Peer Framework. 200-212
Proactive Quality of Service
Lopamudra Roychoudhuri, Ehab S. Al-Shaer: Real-time Analysis of Delay Variation for Packet Loss Prediction. 213-227
David Chieng, Alan Marshall, Gerard Parr: SLA-Driven Flexible Bandwidth Reservation Negotiation Schemes for QoS Aware IP Networks. 228-240
David Soldani, Achim Wacker, Kari Sipilä: An Enhanced Virtual Time Simulator for Studying QoS Provisioning of Multimedia Services in UTRAN247. 241-254
Multimedia Service Control and Management
Kaliappa Nadar Ravindran, Ali Sabbir: Event-based Programming Structures for Multimedia Information Flows. 255-268
Gerassimos D. Barlas, Khaled El-Fakih: Optimizing Continuous Media Delivery by Multiple Distributed Servers to Multiple Clients using a Genetic Algorithm. 282-294
Mobility: Control and Management
Johan Kristiansson, Peter Parnes: Providing Seamless Mobility with Competition based Soft Handover Management. 295-307
Daniel Negru, Ahmed Mehaoua, Anastasios Kourtis, Eric LeBars: Large-Scale Mobile Multimedia Service Management in Next Generation Networks. 308-319



