Networked Group Communication: 1st International Cost 264 Workshop, Ngc'99, Pisa, Italy, November 17-20, 1999, Proceedings

by International Workshop on Networked Group Communication 199 Pisa, ital; Goos, G.; Hartmanis, J.; Leeuwen, J. Van

• ISBN13: 9783540667827
• ISBN10: 3540667822
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International COST 264 Workshop on Networked Group Communication, NGC'99, held in Pisa, Italy in November 1999.The 20 revised full papers presented are carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 49 submissions. Among the topics addressed are communication protocols, multicast communication, communication architectures, large-scale virtual environments, group communication, group building, community computing, multicast routing, Internet services, interactive multimedia, telecommunication service management, etc.

Table of Contents

A Preference Clustering Protocol for Large-Scale Multicast Applications	p. 1
Layered Multicast Group Construction for Reliable Multicast Communications	p. 19
Building Groups Dynamically: A CORBA Group Self-Design Service	p. 36
Issues in Designing a Communications Architecture for Large-Scale Virtual Environments	p. 54
HyperCast: A Protocol for Maintaining Multicast Group Members in a Logical Hypercube Topology	p. 72
Support for Reliable Sessions with a Large Number of Members	p. 90
Distributed Core Multicast (DCM): A Multicast Routing Protocol for Many Groups with Few Receivers	p. 108
A Distributed Recording System for High Quality MBone Archives	p. 126
Reducing Replication of Data in a Layered Video Transcoder	p. 144
Providing Interactive Functions through Active Client-Buffer Management in Partitioned Video Multicast VoD Systems	p. 152
A Multicast Transport Protocol for Reliable Group Applications	p. 170
Efficient Buffering in Reliable Multicast Protocols	p. 188
Native IP Multicast Support in MPLS	p. 204
Cyclic Block Allocation: A New Scheme for Hierarchical Multicast Address Allocation	p. 216
Survivable ATM Group Communication Using Disjoint Meshes, Trees, and Rings	p. 235
The Direction of Value Flow in Connectionless Networks	p. 244
Techniques for Making IP Multicast Simple and Scalable	p. 270
Watercasting: Distributed Watermarking of Multicast Media	p. 286
MARKS: Zero Side Effect Multicast Key Management Using Arbitrarily Revealed Key Sequences	p. 301
Multicast Service Differentiation in Core-Stateless Networks	p. 321
Author Index	p. 339
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