First, increasing the capacity of the “best effort” networks and services does not provide an effective and permanent solution for offering a guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS). Second, the integration of service and network management is a key element in providing end to end service management.

Management of Multimedia Traffic Streaming I.- A Hysteresis Based Approach for Quality, Frame Rate, and Buffer Management for Video Streaming Using TCP.- A Transmission Scheme for Streaming Variable Bit Rate Video over Internet.- MPEG-4 Video Transfer with TCP-Friendly Rate Control.- Resource Management in Wireless Multimedia.- IP Radio Resource Control System.- Is It Worth Involving Several Cooperating Agents for Multimedia User’s Admission in Cellular Networks?.- Analysis of Random Access Protocol under Bursty Traffic.- Management of Multimedia Traffic Streaming II.- A Practical Model for VBR Video Traffic with Applications.- Enhancing Quality of MPEG Video through Partially Reliable Transport Service in Interactive Application.- Delivering of MPEG-4 Multimedia Content over Next Generation Internet.- Video Skimming and Summarization Based on Principal Component Analysis.- QoS Management on the Internet.- Distributed Resource Management to Support Distributed Application-Specific Quality of Service.- Implementation of a Bandwidth Broker for Dynamic End-to-End Capacity Reservation over Multiple Diffserv Domains.- The Impact of Confidentiality on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Voice over IP Networks.- Poster Session.- Queue Length Based Fair Queueing in Core-Stateless Networks.- Study of TCP and UDP Flows in a Differentiated Services Network Using Two Markers System.- Equation-Based Dynamic Shaping Algorithm.- A Novel Content-Based Video Streaming Algorithm for Fine Granular Scalable Coding.- Topological Synthesis of Mobile Backbone Networks for Managing Ad Hoc Wireless Networks.- QoS Monitoring System on IP Networks.- Fault Management on the Internet.- A Framework for Supporting Intelligent Fault and Performance Management for Communication Networks.-Architecture of Generalized Network Service Anomaly and Fault Thresholds.- Providing Scalable Many-to-One Feedback in Multicast Reachability Monitoring Systems.- A Framework for Event Correlation in Communication Systems.- Agents for Multimedia Management.- Policy-Based Management for Multimedia Collaborative Services.- Agent-Enhanced Dynamic Service Level Agreement in Future Network Environment.- WEBARM: Mobile Code Based Agent for Web Application Response Measurement — Software Implementations and Analysis.- Multimedia Service Management.- The Dynamics of Price, Revenue, and System Utilization.- Developing Pattern-Based Management Programs.- Supermedia in Internet-Based Telerobotic Operations.

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