Networked Group Communication: First International Cost264 Workshop, Ngc'99, Pisa, Italy, November 17-20, 1999 Proceedings (Paperback, 1999)

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