Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services, IDMS 2000, held in Enschede, The Netherlands in October 2000.The 24 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The book offers topical sections on efficient audio/video coding and delivery; multimedia conferencing, synchronization and multicast; communication, control, and telephony over IP networks; QoS models and architectures; multimedia applications and user aspects; design and implementation approaches; and mobile multimedia and ubiquitous computing systems.