Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video: 4th International Workshop Nossdav '93, Lancaster, UK, November 3-5, 1993. Proceedin (Paperback, 1994)

Overview of the workshop.- Operating system support for the Desk Area Network.- Adaptive real-time resource management supporting modular composition of digital multimedia services.- Micronet machines - New architectural approaches for multimedia end-systems.- SVR4UNIX scheduler unacceptable for multimedia applications.- Extending the Chorus micro-kernel to support continuous media applications.- User-level real-time threads: An approach towards high performance multimedia threads.- IEEE 802.12 Demand Priority and multimedia.- A scheduling discipline and admission control policy for Xunet 2.- Modeling VC, VP and VN bandwidth assignment strategies in broadband networks.- Dynamic QOS control based on real-time threads.- A multimedia enhanced transport service in a Quality of Service Architecture.- Framework for implementing the next generation of communication protocols.- Queue monitoring: A delay jitter management policy.- Performance bottlenecks in digital movie systems.- Frame-Induced Packet Discarding: An efficient strategy for video networking.- ATM as a link in an ST-2 internet.- Reservation protocols for internetworks: A comparison of ST-II and RSVP.- Probabilistic assignment of movies to storage devices in a video-on-demand system.- Operating system support for a video-on-demand file service.- The evaluation of video layout strategies on a high-bandwidth file server.- Network support for dynamically scaled multimedia data streams.- A unified framework for multicast forwarding.- Filter propagation in dissemination trees: Trading off bandwidth and processing in continuous media networks.