Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video

Technological advances are revolutionizing computers and networks to support digital video and audio, leading to new design spaces in computer systems and applications. Under the surface of these multimedia technologies lies a mine of research problems. This volume presents the proceedings of an international workshop which brought together researchers in all aspects of multimedia computing, communication, storage and applications. The field of multimedia has witnessed an explosive growth in the last few years and the selection of papers for this workshop was extremely competitive. The volume contains 26 full papers and 14 short papers selected from 128 contributions, organized into parts on: network and operating system support for multimedia; multimedia on-demand services; media synchronization; distributed multimedia systems; network and operating system support for multimedia; multimedia models, frameworks, and document architectures; and multimedia workstations and platforms.