Multimedia Systems, Volume 4

Volume 4, Number 1, February 1996

• Panagiotis N. Zarros, Myung J. Lee, Tarek N. Saadawi: A Synchronization Algorithm for Distributed Multimedia Environments. 1-11
• Chi-Cheng Lin, Jiangxu Xiang, Shi-Kuo Chang: Transformation and Exchange of Multimedia Objects in Distributed Multimedia Systems. 12-29
• Sumathi Kadur, Forouzan Golshani, Bruce Millard: Delay-Jitter Control in Multimedia Applications. 30-39
• Banu Özden, Rajeev Rastogi, Abraham Silberschatz: On the Design of a Low-Cost Video-on-Demand Storage System. 40-54

Volume 4, Number 2, April 1996

• Raymond T. Ng, Jinhai Yang: An Analysis of Buffer Sharing and Prefetching Techniques for Multimedia Systems. 55-69
• Antoine N. Mourad: Issues in the Design of a Storage Server for Video-on-Demand. 70-86
• Mengjou Lin, David Singer, Alagu Periyannan: Supporting Constant-Bit-Rate-Encoded MPEG-2 Transport Over Local ATM Networks. 87-98

Volume 4, Number 3, June 1996

• Louis Weitzman, Kent Wittenburg: Grammar-Based Articulation for Multimedia Document Design. 99-111
• Asit Dan, Dinkar Sitaram, Perwez Shahabuddin: Dynamic Batching Policies for an On-Demand Video Server. 112-121
• David G. Boyer, Michael E. Lukacs: The Personal Presence System: A Wide-Area Network Resource for the Real-Time Composition of Multipoint Multimedia Communications. 122-130
• Wei Yen, Ian F. Akyildiz: A Hierarchical Architecture for Buffer Management in Integrated Services Networks. 131-139
• Leana Golubchik, John C. S. Lui, Richard R. Muntz: Adaptive Piggybacking: A Novel Technique for Data Sharing in Video-on-Demand Storage Servers. 140-155

Volume 4, Number 4, August 1996

• Rose P. Tsang, David Hung-Chang Du, Allalaghatta Pavan: Experiments with Video Transmission over an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Network. 157-171
• Sibel Adali, K. Selçuk Candan, Su-Shing Chen, Kutluhan Erol, V. S. Subrahmanian: The Advanced Video Information System: Data Structures and Query Processing. 172-186
• Jan H. M. Korst, Verus Pronk: Storing Continuous-Media Data on a Compact Disc. 187-196
• S. Viswanathan, Tomasz Imielinski: Metropolitan Area Video-on-Demand Service Using Pyramid Broadcasting. 197-208

Volume 4, Number 5, October 1996

• Ralf Guido Herrtwich: Editorial: Special Issue on Tutorials and Surveys. 209
• Eve M. Schooler: Conferencing and Collaborative Computing. 210-225
• A. Desai Narasimhalu: Multimedia Databases. 226-249
• Blair MacIntyre, Steven Feiner: Future Multimedia User Interfaces. 250-268
• Henning Schulzrinne: Operating System Issues for Continuous Media. 269-280
• Gerd Schürmann: Multimedia Mail. 281-295

Volume 4, Number 6, December 1996

• Ian F. Akyildiz: Editorial: Special Issue on Multimedia Networking. 297-298
• Domenico Ferrari: Multimedia Network Protocols: Where Are We? 299-304
• Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Daniel Reininger, Robert J. Siracusa: Video Transport in ATM Networks: A Systems View. 305-315
• Shree Murthy, Hari Lalgudi: Impact of QOS Requirements on Video Coding for ATM Networks. 316-327
• A. Krishnamurthy, Thomas D. C. Little, D. Castañon: A Pricing Mechanism for Scalable Video Delivery. 328-337
• Kun Qian, Nicolas D. Georganas, David D. McDonald: Part 2: Traffic Control in Multimedia Networks - An Efficient Algorithm for Multimedia Call-Admission Control. 339-345
• Hui Zhang, Edward W. Knightly: RCSP and Stop-and-Go: A Comparison of Two Non-Work-Conserving Disciplines for Supporting Multimedia Communication. 346-356
• Erol Gelenbe, Mert Sungur, Christopher Cramer, Pamir Gelenbe: Traffic and Video Quality with Adaptive Neural Compression. 357-369
• Hemant Kanakia, Partho Pratim Mishra: Packet Video Transport in ATM Networks with Single-Bit Feedback. 370-380