Multimedia data streams will form a major part of the new generation of applications in high-speed networks. Continuous media streams, however, require transmission with guaranteed performance. In addition, many multimedia applications will require peer-to-multipeer communication. Guaranteed performance can only be provided with resource reservation in the network, and efficient multipeer communication must be based on multicast support in the lower layers of the network.
Architecture and Protocols for High-Speed Networks focuses on techniques for building the networks that...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Trends in Distributed Systems, TreDS '96, held in Aachen, Germany, in October 1996.
The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 51 submissions; also included is an invited paper by Sape Mullender and Paul Sijben on quality of service in distributed multimedia systems. Beyond the topic of the CORBA architecture and implementations, the book addresses interoperability issues, formal methods, multimedia communication services, distributed object systems, coordination protocols,...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the first international workshop organized by the European Network of Excellence on Next Generation Internet, EURO-NGI 2004, held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in June 2004.The 16 revised full research papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on network and capacity planning, medium access and admission control, QoS in wireless networks, and network inter-connection and resource access. The book provides a most relevant presentation of...

High-Speed Networking for Multimedia Applications presents the latest research on the architecture and protocols for high-speed networks, focusing on communication support for distributed multimedia applications. This includes the two major issues of ATM Networking and quality of service for multimedia applications.
It is to be expected that most of the bandwidth in future high-speed networks will be taken up by multimedia applications, transmitting digital audio and video. Traditional networking protocols are not suitable for this as they do not provide guaranteed bandwidth,...

Dieses Buch entstand aus einer Reihe von Vorlesungen und Seminaren an der Universitat Saarbrlicken. Es enthalt eine vergleichende Be schreibung von schnellen und kostenglinstigen Algorithmen zur Reali sierung arithmetischer Operationen in Digitalrechnern. Obwohl fast aIle Informatiker und nicht wenige Wissenschaftler an derer Fachrichtungen mit diesen Problemen mehr oder weniger inten siv konfrontiert werden, behandeln deutschsprachige Fachblicher mit allgemeinerer Zielsetzung diese Fragen nur am Rande oder in ver gleichsweise kurzen Kapiteln; dies flihrt zwangslaufig zu einer Be schrankung...