David Hutchison

Service Quality Measurements for IPv6 Inter-networks (2008)

Dimitrios P. Pezaros, David Hutchison

Abstract — Measurement-based performance evaluation of network traffic is becoming very important, especially for networks trying to provide differentiated levels of service quality to the...

46 The Internet: A Global Telecommunications Solution? (2008)

David Hutchison

The provision and support of new distributed multimedia services are of prime concern for telecommunications operators and suppliers. Clearly, the potential of the latest Internet protocols to...

13 (2008)

Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, Jan Van Leeuwen, Editorial Board, David Hutchison, Takeo Kanade, ...

concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks....

Measurement and Analysis of Intraflow Performance Characteristics of Wireless Traffic (2008)

Dimitrios P. Pezaros, Manolis Sifalakis, David Hutchison

Abstract. It is by now widely accepted that the arrival process of aggregate network traffic exhibits self-similar characteristics which result in the preservation of traffic burstiness (high...

Relevance Feedback for Sketch Retrieval Based on Linear Programming Classification (2008)

Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, Jan Van Leeuwen, Editorial Board, ...

Abstract. Relevance feedback plays as an important role in sketch retrieval as it does in existing content-based retrieval. This paper presents a method of relevance feedback for sketch retrieval by...

Scalable Bloom Filters (2008)

David Hutchison, Nuno Preguiça

Bloom Filters provide space-efficient storage of sets at the cost of a probability of false positives on mem-bership queries. The size of the filter must be defined a priori based on the number of...

TRANSITION TO HIGH SPEED NETWORKS SuperJANET EXPERIENCE (2008)

Kicheon Kim, Steven Simpson, David Hutchison, Andrew Scott

For the time being, trials to establish the Information Superhighway are booming. In Britain, JANET has provided wide-area computer communication, and has recently been upgraded to SuperJANET,...

COMMUNICATION SERVICES FOR MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS (2007)

A. Danthine, O. Spaniol, W. Effelsberg, D. Ferrari (eds, Andreas Mauthe, Laurent Mathy, ...

In the past it was often not necessary to clearly distinguish between service and protocol since a protocol was implementing a service that did not exhibit too many complex features. Associated with...

Approaches to Connection Management within Broadband Networks (2007)

Christopher Edwards, David Hutchison

The development of broadband networks and services has led to the need for improved signalling capabilities. Standards bodies such as the ITU-T have attempted to extend existing signalling protocols...

ACritique of Modern Internet Protocols: The Issue of Support for Multimedia (2007)

David Hutchison Randa, David Hutchison, A El-marakby, Laurent Mathy

. The provision and support of new distributed multimedia services are of prime concern for telecommunications operators and suppliers. Clearly, the potential of the latest Internet protocols to...

On the Implementation of a Quality of Service Controlled ATM Based Communications System in Chorus (2007)

Gordon Blair, Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison, Michael Papathomas

In this paper we describe the design of a QoS driven communications stack in a microkernel operating system environment. The paper focuses on resource management aspects of the design and in...

Group Management Services for Distributed Multimedia Applications (2007)

Silvester Namuye, David Hutchison, Andreas Mauthe, Geoff Coulson

Introduction In today's computer network environments there is an increasing need to be able to connect named groups of people and/ or processes that need to collaborate to carry out some...

Protocol Support Fordistributed Multimedia Applications (2007)

Doug Shepherd, David Hutchison, Geoff Coulson

In this paper we describe ongoing work in protocol support for distributed multimedia applications. This work concerns the provision of suitable transport mechanisms to convey multimedia information...

y (2007)

Marc Rennhard, Sandro Rafaeli, Laurent Mathy, Bernhard Plattner, David Hutchison

It is difficult to design a system that provides anonymity for delay-sensitive services such as Web browsing. Existing systems are either not resistant against sophisticated attacks or they achieve...

y (2007)

Marc Rennhard, Sandro Rafaeli, Laurent Mathy, Bernhard Plattner, David Hutchison

Various systems offering anonymity for near real-time Internet traffic have been operational. However, they did not deliver many quantitative results about performance, bandwidth overhead, or other...

Component selection for heterogeneous active networking (2007)

Steven Simpson, Mark Banfield, Paul Smith, David Hutchison

Abstract. Active Networking (AN) involves the processing of programs in heterogeneous networking environments. There are several AN solutions, exposing di#erent APIs and using di#erent languages, and...

for Scalable Video Flows (2007)

Andrew Campbell, David Hutchison, Cristina Aurrecoechea

cris @ ctr.columbia.edu Abstract. We introduce the concept of Dynamic QoS Management (DQM) for control and management of hierarchically coded flows operating in heterogeneous multimedia networking...

Research Student: John Cushnie (2007)

Supervisor Prof, David Hutchison

Mobile telephone communications and the Internet are converging and may eventually operate on a common technical platform, using TCP/IP networks as the main backbone medium. Mobile telephones are...

MAPPING CONTINUOUS MEDIA TRAFFIC ONTO ATM NETWORKS (2007)

Frank Ball, David Hutchison, Demetres D. Kouvatsos

ATM networks are expected to carry various types of traffic, each with their own individual temporal characteristics and quality of service (QoS) requirements. Continuous media is a class of network...

Active Badge Secured Entry (2007)

Supervisor Prof, David Hutchison

The aim of this project is to develop the Active Badge Location system, designed and realized by Olivetti Research, so as to allow the location information obtained to be used by a secured entry...

The Multimedia Session Manager User Manual (2007)

Ro Rafaeli, David Hutchison

Browsing the Web is usually a lonely task. People visit sites, collect information and are not aware of other people looking at the same material, people with whom they could exchange experiences and...

An (2007)

Sandro Rafaeli, Laurent Mathy, David Hutchison

efficient one-way function tree implementation for group key management

b (2007)

Stefan Schmid, Andrew Scott, David Hutchison, Konrad Froitzheim

Live audio streaming is an important component of Internet multimedia. The currently deployed Internet oers poor support for such streams due to the lack of Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities....

REDO RSVP: E#cient Signalling for Multimedia in the Internet. (2007)

Laurent Mathy, David Hutchison, Stefan Schmid, Steven Simpson

Abstract. Alarming reports of performance and scalability problems associated with per-flow reservations have led many to doubt the ultimate utility of RSVP and the Integrated Services Architecture...

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION STACKS (2007)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, Francisco García, David Hutchison

The integration of distributed multimedia systems support into a communications architecture encompassing the new multiservice networks poses significant challenges. A key observation about the new...

Bandwidth measurements of ALM trees for content distribution (2007)

Rui J. Lopes, Laurent Mathy, David Hutchison

The use of Application Level Multicast (ALM) is extremely promising for content distribution. For these applications appropriate cost functions for deciding between dierent ALM tree congurations are...

c ○ Springer-Verlag 1998 Transporting QoS adaptive flows (2007)

Andrew T. Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison

Abstract. Distributed audio and video applications need to adapt to fluctuations in delivered quality of service (QoS). By trading off temporal and spatial quality to available bandwidth, or...

Locating Resources in a Programmable Networking Environment. (2006)

Smith, Paul;, Simpson , Steven;, Hutchison, David

Programmable networking is a technology that has been demonstrated to enable the rapid deployment of novel network services. This is achieved through the use of open interfaces that can be used to...

From Active Networks to Cognitive Networks (2005)

Sifalakis, Manolis, Hutchison, David

Future networks need to be autonomic self-managed and provide resilient servicing, even when the hardware fails. To achieve this goal, two fundamental requirements need to be satisfied: (i) the...

04411 Abtracts Collection -- Service Management and Self-Organization in IP-based Networks (2005)

Bossardt, Matthias, Carle, Georg, Hutchison, David, Meer, Hermann De, Plattner, Bernhard

From 03.10.04 to 06.10.04, the Dagstuhl Seminar 04411 ``Service Management and Self-Organization in IP-based Networks'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss...

Light and Shade. "City of Light: A History of Perth Since the 1950s" by Jenny Gregory. [review] (2004)

Hutchison, David

Perth has been well served by its historians. C.T. Stannage’s "The People of Perth" (1979), a pioneering urban social history, covered the period to World War I, with a summary of developments into...

Light and Shade. "City of Light: A History of Perth Since the 1950s" by Jenny Gregory. [review] (2004)

Hutchison, David

Perth has been well served by its historians. C.T. Stannage’s "The People of Perth" (1979), a pioneering urban social history, covered the period to World War I, with a summary of developments into...

Light and Shade. "City of Light: A History of Perth Since the 1950s" by Jenny Gregory. [review] (2004)

Hutchison, David

Perth has been well served by its historians. C.T. Stannage’s "The People of Perth" (1979), a pioneering urban social history, covered the period to World War I, with a summary of developments into...

Light and Shade. "City of Light: A History of Perth Since the 1950s" by Jenny Gregory. [review] (2004)

Hutchison, David

Perth has been well served by its historians. C.T. Stannage’s "The People of Perth" (1979), a pioneering urban social history, covered the period to World War I, with a summary of developments into...

Light and Shade. "City of Light: A History of Perth Since the 1950s" by Jenny Gregory. [review] (2004)

Hutchison, David

Perth has been well served by its historians. C.T. Stannage’s "The People of Perth" (1979), a pioneering urban social history, covered the period to World War I, with a summary of developments into...

A survey of key management for secure group communications. (2003)

Rafaeli , Sandro;, Hutchison, David

Group communication can benefit from IP multicast to achieve scalable exchange of messages. However, there is a challenge of effectively controlling access to the transmitted data. IP multicast by...

Honest Governor. "James Stirling: Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia" by Pamela Statham-Drew. [review] (2003)

Hutchison, David

Pamela Statham-Drew’s account of Stirling’s governorship is very detailed and will enhance his reputation for competence. Statham-Drew has been well served by the publishers. This is a handsome...

Honest Governor. "James Stirling: Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia" by Pamela Statham-Drew. [review] (2003)

Hutchison, David

Pamela Statham-Drew’s account of Stirling’s governorship is very detailed and will enhance his reputation for competence. Statham-Drew has been well served by the publishers. This is a handsome...

Honest Governor. "James Stirling: Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia" by Pamela Statham-Drew. [review] (2003)

Hutchison, David

Pamela Statham-Drew’s account of Stirling’s governorship is very detailed and will enhance his reputation for competence. Statham-Drew has been well served by the publishers. This is a handsome...

Honest Governor. "James Stirling: Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia" by Pamela Statham-Drew. [review] (2003)

Hutchison, David

Pamela Statham-Drew’s account of Stirling’s governorship is very detailed and will enhance his reputation for competence. Statham-Drew has been well served by the publishers. This is a handsome...

A survey of key management for secure group communication (2003)

Sandro Rafaeli, David Hutchison

Group communication can benefit from IP multicast to achieve scalable exchange of messages. However, there is a challenge of effectively controlling access to the transmitted data. IP multicast by...

Peer-to-Peer Computing: Systems, Concepts and Characteristics (2003)

Andreas Mauthe, David Hutchison

Peer-to-peer is a technology concept applied at different levels of the systems architecture. Its main characteristics are direct interaction and data exchange between peer systems. It is the basis...

Honest Governor. "James Stirling: Admiral and Founding Governor of Western Australia" by Pamela Statham-Drew. [review] (2003)

Hutchison, David

Pamela Statham-Drew’s account of Stirling’s governorship is very detailed and will enhance his reputation for competence. Statham-Drew has been well served by the publishers. This is a handsome...

Changing the Order of Things. "C.Y. O'Connor: His Life and Legacy", by A.G. Evans. [review] (2002)

Hutchison, David

Evans has, through painstaking research in Ireland and New Zealand, revealed — in the words of the historian Geoffrey Bolton — O’Connor’s ‘elusive and complex personality’ and enriched...

Changing the Order of Things. "C.Y. O'Connor: His Life and Legacy", by A.G. Evans. [review] (2002)

Hutchison, David

Evans has, through painstaking research in Ireland and New Zealand, revealed — in the words of the historian Geoffrey Bolton — O’Connor’s ‘elusive and complex personality’ and enriched...

Changing the Order of Things. "C.Y. O'Connor: His Life and Legacy", by A.G. Evans. [review] (2002)

Hutchison, David

Evans has, through painstaking research in Ireland and New Zealand, revealed — in the words of the historian Geoffrey Bolton — O’Connor’s ‘elusive and complex personality’ and enriched...

Changing the Order of Things. "C.Y. O'Connor: His Life and Legacy", by A.G. Evans. [review] (2002)

Hutchison, David

Evans has, through painstaking research in Ireland and New Zealand, revealed — in the words of the historian Geoffrey Bolton — O’Connor’s ‘elusive and complex personality’ and enriched...

Making Content Delivery Pay (2002)

John Cushnie Rui, Rui Lopes, David Hutchison

The Internet has become a multi-purpose network capable of providing many services to a variety of geographies and population. Content delivery of digital content covers many possibilities from music...

Analysis of an Anonymity Network for Web Browsing (2002)

Marc Rennhard, Ro Rafaeli, Laurent Mathy, Bernhard Plattner, David Hutchison

Various systems offering anonymity for near real-time Internet traffic have been operational. However, they did not deliver many quantitative results about performance, bandwidth overhead, or other...

Scalable Adaptive Hierarchical Clustering (2002)

Laurent Mathy, Roberto Canonico, Steven Simpson, David Hutchison

Abstract—We propose a new application-level clustering algorithm capable of building an overlay spanning tree among participants of large multicast sessions, without any specific help from the...

Changing the Order of Things. "C.Y. O'Connor: His Life and Legacy", by A.G. Evans. [review] (2002)

Hutchison, David

Evans has, through painstaking research in Ireland and New Zealand, revealed — in the words of the historian Geoffrey Bolton — O’Connor’s ‘elusive and complex personality’ and enriched...

An Overlay Tree Building Control Protocol. (2001)

Mathy , Laurent;, Canonico , Roberto;, Hutchison , David

TBCP is a generic Tree Building Control Protocol designed to build overlay spanning trees among participants of a multicast session, without any specific help from the network routers. TBCP therefore...

An Architecture for Pseudonymous e-Commerce (2001)

Sandro Rafaeli, Marc Rennhard, Laurent Mathy, Bernhard Plattner, David Hutchison

Current e-commerce practice enforces a customer to disclose his/her identify to the e-shop. The use of credit cards makes it straightforward for an e-shop to know the real identity of its customers....

An Overlay Tree Building Control Protocol (2001)

Laurent Mathy, Roberto Canonico, David Hutchison

Abstract. TBCP is a generic ree Building Control Protocol designed to build overlay spanning trees among participants of a multicast session, without any specific help from the network routers. TBCP...

GCAP: A New Multimedia Multicast Architecture for QoS (2001)

Michel Diaz, Roberto Canonico, Luis Costa, Serge Fdida, David Hutchison, Laurent Mathy, ...

Abstract. Despite its obvious suitability for distributed multimedia applications, multicasting has not yet found widespread application. Having analyzed shortcomings of today's approaches, we...

An Architecture for Pseudonymous e-Commerce (2001)

Sandro Rafaeli, Marc Rennhard, Laurent Mathy, Bernhard Plattner, David Hutchison

Current e-commerce practice enforces a customer to disclose her identify to the e-shop. The use of credit cards makes it straightforward for an e-shop to know the real identity of its customers....

ALM and ProgNets for v4-to-v6 Multicast Transition (2001)

Paul Smith, Laurent Mathy, Roberto Canonico, David Hutchison

Current efforts in the area of IP transitioning have largely considered unicast communications.

An overlay tree building control protocol (2001)

Laurent Mathy, Roberto Canonico, David Hutchison

Abstract. TBCP is a generic Tree Building Control Protocol designed to build overlay spanning trees among participants of a multicast session, without any specific help from the network routers. TBCP...

A Decentralized Architecture for Group Key Management (2000)

Sandro Rafaeli, Supervisor Prof, David Hutchison

In recent years many different proposals have been presented to solve the problem of multicast communication security. There are proposals that employ a central entity, which is responsible for...

Evolution of Charging and Billing Models for GSM and Future Mobile Internet Services (2000)

John Cushnie, David Hutchison, Huw Oliver

This paper first describes the convergence of GSM networks with the Internet and then examines the methods for collecting the billing information and then the processing of this billing information....

Remoulding Public Service Broadcasting, the British Experience (1999)

Hutchison, David

Abstract: Public service broadcasting has been under pressure in the United Kingdom in recent years. The reasons for this situation are considered, the challenges which have arisen are examined, and...

Improving RSVP for Better Support of Internet Multimedia Communications (1999)

Laurent Mathy, David Hutchison, Stefan Schmid, Geoff Coulson

We have observed the failure of RSVP to be widely accepted as the solution to resource reservation in the Internet. Because we are convinced of the need for resource reservation, in at least parts of...

Modelling and Improving Flow Establishment in RSVP (1999)

Laurent Mathy, David Hutchison, Steven Simpson

RSVP has developed as a key component for the evolving Internet, and in particular for the Integrated Services Architecture. Therefore, RSVP performance is crucially important; yet this has been...

Scalability Improvement of the Real-time Control Protocol (RTCP) Leading to Management Facilities in the Internet (1998)

Randa El-Marakby, A El-marakby, David Hutchison

In this paper, we address some of the problems concerning RTCP scalability in large multicast groups. The problems are summarised as the increased storage state maintained by every member about every...

Towards Managed Real-time Communications in the Internet Environment (1997)

A El-marakby, David Hutchison

Our work is concerned with the provision of resource-managed multimedia communications in an Internet environment. In this paper we outline an architecture and an implementation of a real-time...

Resource Management for Distributed Multimedia Applications (1997)

Daniel Waddington, Christopher Edwards, David Hutchison

In this paper we present and discuss our approach to resource management for distributed multimedia applications. We assert that resource management is important to meet the diverse Quality of...

Scalable and Reliable Multimedia Multipeer Communication in the M-Connection Service (1997)

Andreas Mauthe, Serge Fdida, David Hutchison

New applications such as conferencing and co-operative systems operate in a group environment. Many networks have multicast capabilities, yet, a lack of transport protocols and services that offer...

Delivery of Real-time Continuous Media over the Internet (1997)

Randa El-Marakby, A El-marakby, David Hutchison

In this paper, we outline an architecture which enables the real-time delivery of continuous media over the Internet using the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). We present our implementation of RTP...

Integrating RTP into the world wide web (1996)

A El-marakby, David Hutchison

In this paper, we outline an architecture and an implementation which enables the real-time delivery of continuous media within the WWW, monitors QoS of data transmission, and conveys minimal session...

Continuous Media Filters for Heterogeneous Internetworking (1996)

Nicholas Yeadon, Francisco Garca, David Hutchison, Doug Shepherd

There is now a huge variety of multimedia applications, network technologies and end-system architectures. Within this new and challenging environment, the importance of Quality of Service (QoS)...

Fully Reliable Multicast in Heterogeneous Environments (1996)

Jos'e De Rezende, Andreas Mauthe, Serge Fdida, David Hutchison

Multicast (1:N) is now supported by a number of networks and communication protocols. A problem in this context is how to provide fully reliable data transmission to the receiver group (or specified...

Fully Reliable Multicast in Heterogeneous Environments (1996)

Andreas Mauthe, Serge Fdida, David Hutchison

Multicast (1:N) is now supported by a number of networks and communication protocols. A problem in this context is how to provide fully reliable data transmission to the receiver group (or specified...

Supporting Adaptive Flows in a Quality of Service Architecture (1996)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison, Lancaster La Yr

Distributed audio and video applications need to adapt to fluctuations in delivered quality of service (QoS). By trading off temporal and spatial quality to available bandwidth, or manipulating the...

Filters: QoS Support Mechanisms for Multipeer Communications (1996)

Nicholas Yeadon, Francisco García, David Hutchison, Doug Shepherd

The nature of distributed multimedia applications is such that they require multipeer communication support mechanisms. The multimedia traffic needs to be delivered to end-systems, networks and...

Integrated System Support for Distributed Multimedia Databases (1996)

Kai Bruns, David Hutchison, Andreas Mauthe

The introduction of multiple media into distributed databases raise a variety of new problems. Database management systems also have to deal with multimedia related problems which they share with...

Evaluation of the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) for Continuous Media Communications (1996)

Randa El-Marakby, A El-marakby, David Hutchison

In this paper, we present an evaluation of the functionality of the Internet Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) with respect to minimal transport protocols' requirements; we also outline an...

M-Connection Service: A Multicast Service for Distributed Multimedia Applications (1995)

Jos'e De Rezende, Andreas Mauthe, David Hutchison, Serge Fdida

. New high speed networks and the requirements of users for the support of interpersonal communication in a computerised heterogeneous environment demand for new communication services. These...

Supporting Adaptive Flows in a Quality of Service Architecture (1995)

Andrew Campbell Geoff, Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison, Lancaster La Yr

Distributed audio and video applications need to adapt to fluctuations in delivered quality of service (QoS). By trading off temporal and spatial quality to available bandwidth, or manipulating the...

M-Connection Service: A Multicast Service for Distributed Multimedia Applications (1995)

Andreas Mauthe, David Hutchison, Serge Fdida

. New high speed networks and the requirements of users for the support of interpersonal communication in a computerised heterogeneous environment demand for new communication services. These...

BT URI Project; WP2/D2: Session Acceptance and QoS Management in End-systems (1995)

Geoff Coulson, Andrew Campbell, David Hutchison

We describe the design of an application platform able to run distributed real-time and multimedia applications alongside conventional UNIX programs. The platform is embedded in a micro-kernel/ PC...

A Review Of Quality Of Service Architectures (1995)

Andrew Campbell, Cristina Aurrecoechea, Linda Hauw, David Hutchison

The integration of distributed multimedia systems support into a communications architecture, including new multiservice networks, is important in realising end-to-end quality of service (QoS)...

QoS Support for Video & Audio Multipeer Communications (1995)

Francisco Garcia, Andreas Mauthe, Nicholas Yeadon, David Hutchison

The nature of distributed multimedia applications is such that they require multipeer communication support mechanisms. The multimedia traffic needs to be delivered to endsystems, networks and...

Quality of Service management in distributed systems (1994)

David Hutchison, Geoff Coulson, Andrew Campbell, Gordon S. Blair

The integration of distributed multimedia systems support into a communications architecture including the new multiservice networks is important for realising the next generation of open systems...

Flow Management in a Quality of Service Architecture (1994)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison

For applications relying on the transfer of multimedia, and in particular continuous media, it is essential that quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed system-wide, including end-systems,...

A Quality of Service Architecture (1994)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison, Lancaster La Yr

Abstract. For applications relying on the transfer of multimedia, and in particular continuous media, it is essential that quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed system-wide, including endsystems,...

QoS Adaptation and Flow Filtering in ATM Networks (1994)

Nicholas Yeadon, Francisco Garca, Andrew Campbell, David Hutchison, Lancaster La Yr

this paper is motivated by the need to provide flexible flow management support for a wide variety of continuous media applications in heterogeneous environments. The Lancaster environment consists...

A Quality Of Service Architecture (1994)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison, Lancaster La Yr

. For applications relying on the transfer of multimedia, and in particular continuous media, it is essential that quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed system-wide, including endsystems,...

The Design of a QoS Controlled ATM Based Communications System in Chorus (1994)

Geoff Coulson, Andrew Campbell, Philippe Robin, Gordon Blair, Michael Papathomas, David Hutchison

We describe the design of an application platform able to run distributed real-time and multimedia applications alongside conventional UNIX programs. The platform is embedded in a micro-kernel/ PC...

From Requirements To Services: Group Communication Support For Distributed Multimedia Systems (1994)

Andreas Mauthe, David Hutchison, Geoff Coulson, Silvester Namuye

. The GCommS (Group Communication Support for Distributed Communication Systems) project at Lancaster University is concerned with the support of group communication, especially for applications...

Flow Management in a Quality of Service Architecture (1994)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison

Quality of Service (QoS) in distributed systems supporting real-time and multimedia applications must be guaranteed system-wide, including end-systems, communications systems and networks. This paper...

Flow Management in a Quality of Service Architecture (1994)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison

. For applications relying on the transfer of multimedia, and in particular continuous media, it is essential that quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed system-wide, including end-systems,...

A Quality of Service Architecture (1994)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison, Lancaster La Yr

. For applications relying on the transfer of multimedia, and in particular continuous media, it is essential that quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed system-wide, including endsystems,...

Sommerville: Distributed Systems Management as a Group Activity (1993)

Graham Dean, Tom Rodden, Ian Sommemille, David Hutchison, La Yr

Email: graham @ comp.lancs.ac.uk It is important to consider systems management as part of a whole organisational management strategy and, as such, to be aware of the impact of people on management....

A Multimedia Enhanced Transport Service in a Quality of Service Architecture (1993)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison, Lancaster La Yr

Abstract. For applications relying on the transfer of multimedia, and in particular continuous media, it is essential that quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed system-wide, including end-systems,...

A Multimedia Enhancement Network Device (1993)

Nick Yeadon, David Hutchison

The lack of widespread distributed multimedia applications could be attributed to the restrictive cost of the hardware devices involved. Typical multimedia applications include music composition,...

Integrated Quality of Service for Multimedia Communications (1993)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, Francisco García, David Hutchison, Helmut Leopold, Lancaster La Yr

The integration of distributed multimedia systems support into a communications architecture encompassing the new multiservice networks poses significant challenges. A key observation about the new...

Orchestration Services for Distributed Multimedia Synchronization (1992)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, Francisco García, David Hutchison

Rapid developments in networking technology over the past few years have lead to the emergence of distributed applications which incorporate continuous media data types such as digital video and...

Integrated Quality of Service for Multimedia Communications (1992)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, Francisco García, David Hutchison

This paper describes the first stage in the development of an integrated Quality of Service Architecture (QOS-A) which offers a framework to specify and implement the required performance properties...

A Network Interface Unit To Support Continuous Media (1992)

Gordon Blair, Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, Francisco García, David Hutchison, Andrew Scott, ...

The combination of high speed multi-service networks and multimedia workstations offers considerable potential for the development of distributed multimedia applications. However, many challenges...

Integrated Quality Of Service For Multimedia Communications (1992)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison, Helmut Leopold

The integration of distributed multimedia systems support into a communications architecture encompassing the new multiservice networks poses significant challenges. A key observation about the new...

A Continuous Media Transport and Orchestration Service (1992)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison

The desire to transfer continuous media such as digital audio and video across packet switched networks imposes a number of new requirements on transportlevel# communication services. This paper...

Orchestration Services for Distributed Multimedia Synchronisation (1992)

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, Francisco García, David Hutchison

Rapid developments in networking technology over the past few years have lead to the emergence of distributed applications which incorporate continuous media data types such as digital video and...

Towards New Transport Services To Support Distributed Multimedia Applications (1992)

Gordon Blair, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison, Doug Shepherd

This paper describes the contribution of Lancaster University to the definition of new transport services for supporting distributed multimedia applications. The paper first reports on a set of...

Orchestration Services For Continuous Media Communications (1992)

Gordon Blair, Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, Frankie Garcia, David Hutchison, Andrew Scott, ...

1. Introduction The development of communications systems to support distributed multimedia application which exploit continuous media (e.g. audio and video) introduces new synchronisation...

Specifying QoS for Multimedia Communications within Distributed Programming Environments

Daniel Waddington, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison

Because of the increasing emphasis on distributed object programming for the provision of multimedia telecommunications services, it has become apparent that a unification between the distributed...

A Multimedia Enhanced Transport Service in a Quality of Service Architecture

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison, Lancaster La Yr

. For applications relying on the transfer of multimedia, and in particular continuous media, it is essential that quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed system-wide,including# end-systems,...

Resource Management In Multimedia Communication Stacks

Andrew Campbell, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison

Introduction The integration of distributedmultimedia# systems support into a communications architecture encompassing the new multiservice networksposes# significant challenges. A key observation...