Wireless Multimedia Systems -- The Impact of Wireless Device Access on Content Delivery Networks -- Adaptive Access Regulation for VBR Video Streams -- Performance Evaluation of Live Video Streaming Service in 802.11b WLAN Environment under Different Load Conditions -- Packetization Scheme for Streaming High-Quality Audio over Wireless Links -- Communication Protocols for Multimedia -- Preserving Established Communications in IPv6 Multi-homed Sites with MEX -- Observations on Equation-Based Estimation of TCP-Compatible Rate for Multi-rate Multicast Scenarios -- Smoothing the TCP Rate by Learning the Delay versus Window Size Dependency -- KOM ScenGen The Swiss Army Knife for Simulation and Emulation Experiments -- Scheduling Issues -- The Effect of Per-input Shapers on the Delay Bound in Networks with Aggregate Scheduling -- Scheduling and Quality Differentiation in Differentiated Services -- Caching -- Size-Distortion Optimized Proxy Caching for Robust Transmission of MPEG-4 Video -- Design and Performance Evaluation of a Price-Based Cache Algorithm for Mobile Web Services -- Quality of Service Architectures -- Admission Control and Resource Reservation Framework for the OMODIS QoS Framework -- Efficient Reservation-Based QoS Architecture -- Performance Evaluation of the Preemptive Bandwidth Allocation Protocol -- Impact of Network Topology on the Performance of Budget Based Network Admission Control Methods -- Novel Communication Services -- Perceptual Network Metaphors: Breaking the Network Transparency Paradigm -- Quality Differentiation with Source Shaping and Forward Error Correction -- Mapping UMTS Bearers to DiffServ PHBs -- Enhancing the Coexistence of Unicast and Multicast Sessions in Diffserv Architecture -- Middleware -- Session Sharing as Middleware Service for Distributed Multimedia Applications -- Evaluation of Middleware for Distributed Objects on Handheld Devices -- Infrastructure -- Spatio-temporal QoS Pattern Analysis in Large Scale Internet Environment -- Jungle Issues in Class-Based Routing -- Second-Chance Auctions for Multimedia Session Pricing -- Efficient Offline Certificate Revocation -- IP Telephony -- Packetization and Silence Influence on VoIP Traffic Profiles -- Using Context Information to Avoid Service Interactions in IP Telephony -- Multimedia Applications -- cPost-it: Context-Based Information Sharing System -- Content Based Localized Robust Audio Watermarking -- A Mixed XML-JavaBeans Approach to Developing T-learning Applications for the Multimedia Home Platform -- A Multimedia, Multichannel, and Personalized News Provider -- Encoding -- Energy-Scalable Motion Estimation for Low-Power Multimedia Applications -- Pruned Mode Decision based on Variable Block Sizes Motion Compensation for H.264.