Group Communications and Charges; Technology and Business Models: 5th COST264 International Workshop on Networked Group Communications, NGC 2003, and 3rd International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies, ICQT 2003, Munich, Germany, September 16-19, 2003 Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 2816

Networked Group Communications (NGC).- User-Interest Driven Video Adaptation for Collaborative Workspace Applications.- Improving Efficiency of Application-Level Multicast with Network Support.- An Adaptive Method for Dynamic Audience Size Estimation in Multicast.- Anycast in Locality-Aware Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks.- Scalable Application-Level Anycast for Highly Dynamic Groups.- Topology-Centric Look-Up Service.- Service Differentiation in Peer-to-Peer Networks Utilizing Reputations.- Adding Structure to Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks: The Role of Overlay Topology.- Building Semantic Peer-to-Peer Networks upon CAN.- Adding Reliable and Self-healing Key Distribution to the Subset Difference Group Rekeying Method for Secure Multicast.- Key Bundles and Parcels: Secure Communication in Many Groups.- EBM: A New Approach for Scalable DiffServ Multicasting.- Team Oriented Multicast: A Scalable Routing Protocol for Large Mobile Networks.- Generalized Multicast Congestion Control.- IP Multicast over Cable TV Networks.- Extremum Feedback with Partial Knowledge.- Design and Evaluation of a Low Density Generator Matrix (LDGM) Large Block FEC Codec.- Overcoming Last-Hop/First-Hop Problems in IP Multicast.- The Performance of Software Multicast-Reflector Implementations for Multi-player Online Games.- Performance Evaluation of Multicast for Small Conferences.- Scalable Support for Source Specific Multicast in Differentiated Services Networks.- Programming Overlay Networks with Overlay Sockets.- Enhancing Peer-to-Peer Parallel Data Access with PeerFecT.- Internet Charging and QoS Technology (ICQT).- An Approach to the Charging of Secure IP Multicast Services.- Accounting Mechanism for Membership Size-Dependent Pricing of Multicast Traffic.- A Low-Cost Packet Originator Verification for Metering at Access-Routers.- Problem Statement: Metering and Accounting in the Full-IP 4G Environment.- Incentive Based Inter-domain Routeing.- The Economics of Smart Routing and Quality of Service.- A Progressive Second Price Mechanism with a Sanction Bid from Excluded Players.- Capacitated Network Revenue Management through Shadow Pricing.

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