Keynote Address. - 1 Programming telecommunication networks. - One Mobile Communication. - 2 Adaptive service in mobile computing environments. - 3 Quality of service support in a mobile environment: an approach based on tuple spaces. - 4 IPv6 + MOBILE-IP = MRSVP = Internet Cellular Phone?. - 5 QoS challenges for next generation mobile middleware. - 6 Link error impact on MPEG video over wireless broadband networks. - 7 QoS support for mobile computing. - Two Traffic Management. - 8 Worst case arrivals of leaky bucket constrained sources: the myth of the on-off source. - 9 Guaranteeing multiple cell loss classes in shared ATM output buffer. - 10 Comprehensive queueing analysis for partial buffer system with Discrete Markovian Arrival Processes. - 11 Real-time estimation of link capacity in multimedia networks. - Three QoS Routing. - 12 Quality-of-service routing for traffic with performance guarantees. - 13 QoS based multicast routing for multimedia communications. - 14 Issues in supporting quality of service in mobile ad hoc networks. - Four QoS and Video Systems. - 15 Supporting multiple-tier QoS in a video bridging application. - 16 Playout management of interactive video an adaptive approach. - 17 A temporal QoS based CPU scheduling model for multimedia applications in general purpose operating systems. - 18 Adaptive video applications for non-QoS networks. - Five QoS Management. - 19 Integrated CPU and network-I/O QoS management in an endsystem. - 20 Service-tailored QoS management in high performance networks. - 21 Application design for cooperative QoS management. - 22 On the specification of EtE QoS control. - 23 Using attribute-managed storage to achieve QoS. - 24 QoS for Distributed Object Computing Middleware Fact or Fiction?. - 25 Quality of Service: Where are we?. - SixDistributed Object Computing. - 26 Integrating QoS restrictions into the process of service selection. - 27 Quality of service (QoS) in communication APIs. - 28 Managing systemic meta-data for creating QoS-adaptive CORBA applications. - 29 Support components for quality of service in distributed environments: monitoring service. - 30 A QoS configuration systems for distributed applications. - Seven Advanced Reservation. - 31 Sharing resources through advance reservation agents. - 32 Providing a scalable video-on-demand system using future reservation of resources and multicast communications. - Eight QoS-based Transport Protocols. - 33 QoS mapping between user's preference and bandwidth control for video transport. - 34 On end-to-end QoS mapping. - 35 Transport QoS over unreliable networks: no guarantees no free lunch . - 36 QoS-based transport. - 37 Reservations about reservations. - Nine QoS Mapping. - 38 Simplified method for session coordination using multi-level QoS specification and translation. - 39 Quantitative QoS-mapping: a unifying approach. - 40 QoS translation and admission control for MPEG video. - 41 Towards specifying QoS-enabling software architectures. - Ten QoS Adaptation. - 42 Terminal QoS of adaptive applications and its analytical computation. - 43 End-to-end quality of service control adaptive applications. - 44 Adaptive QoS in multimedia systems. - 45 A dynamic QoS adaptation mechanism for networked virtual reality. - 46 Predictable file access latency for multimedia. - Index of contributors. - Keyword index. Language: English