Tuesday, April 23, 1996
16:00-19:00	Conference Registration
19:00-21:30	Opening Reception
Wednesday, April 24, 1996
7:30-8:30	Breakfast Buffet
8:30-8:45	Introduction Workshop Chairs Hide Tokuda
8:45-10:15	Technical Sessions I "Networking" Session Chair: Hiroshi Yasuda (NTT) Should an Integrated-Services Internetwork be Connectionless or Connection-Oriented? Domenico Ferrari (Universita` Cattolica) Retransmission-Based Error Control for Continuous Media Applications Christos Papadopoulos and Guru M. Parulkar (Washington University) Decentralized End-to-End Scheduling for Continuous Multimedia J. Huang, Y. Wang, and D. Kenchammana-Hosekote (Honeywell Technology Center)
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-12:00	Technical Sessions II "OS Support for Network Subsystems" Session Chair: Domenico Ferrari (Universita` Cattolica) Multimedia Network Subsystem Design See-Mong Tan, Willy S. Liao, and Roy H. Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Server Based Flow Control in A Distributed Continuous Media Server Gerald Neufeld, Dwight Makaroff, and Norman Hutchinson (University of British Columbia) Native-Mode ATM in FreeBSD: Experiences and Performance A. Jain and S. Keshav (Bell Laboratories)
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-14:30	Technical Sessions III "ATM" Session Chair: Guru Parulkar (Washington University) An Empirical Evaluation of Adaptive QOS Renegotiation in ATM networks K. Lakshman and Raj Yavatkar (University of Kentucky) SEAM: Scalable and Efficient ATM Multipoint-to-Multipoint Multicasting Matthias Grossglauser (INRIA) and K. K. Ramakrishnan (Bell Laboratories) ATM Virtual Studio Services Christian Breiteneder, Simon Gibbs, Wolfgang Heiden, Manfred Kaul, Karl Jonas, and Dirk Steinberg (German National Research Center for Information Technology)
14:30-15:00	Break
15:00-16:30	Technical Sessions IV "Congestion Control" Session Chair: Norman Hutchinson (University of British Columbia) Support for Compressed Video with Explicit Rate Congestion Control in ATM Networks K. K. Ramakrishnan, T. V. Lakshman, Partho Mishra (AT&T Bell Laboratories) A Router-Based Congestion Control Scheme For Real-Time Continuous Media Mark Parris, Kevin Jeffay, Teny Talley, and F. Donelson Smith (University of North Carolina) Why WFQ Is Not Good Enough For Integrated Services Networks Jon C.R. Bennett (FORE Systems) and Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)
16:30-17:00	Break
17:00-19:00	Work in progress Sessions "Multicasting, ATM, and Quality of Service" Session Chair: Daniel Swinehart (Xerox PARC) Multicast Protocol for Continuous media Yuko Onoe (NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories) and Hideyuki Tokuda (Keio University) Admission Control Algorithms for Multicast Sessions with Multiple Streams Nachum Shacham and Hidetoshi Yokota (SRI International) Improved performance for multi-party communication through advance reservations Amit Gupta (University of California Berkeley) Transmission Characteristics of MPEG2 Encoded Super High Definition Images Katsuhiro ISHIMARU, Tetsurou FUJII, Tomoko SAWABE, Junji SUZUKI, and Sadayasu ONO (NTT Optical Network Systems Laboratories) Design and Implementation of a Versatile Multimedia Network Interface and I/O Chip Zubin D. Dittia, Jerome R. Cox, Jr., and Guru M. Parulkar (Washington University in St. Louis) A Practical and Economical Approach for Resource Allocation Fukiko Hidano (University of California Berkeley) An Advanced Reservation-based Admission Control Algorithm for Video-On-Demand Server Sooncheol Kim and Yookun Cho (Seoul National University) Discrete-Time Interval Based Predictor Algorithms for End-to-End Performance Girish Chiruvolu, Ken Christensen, and Ravi Sankar (University of South Florida) Usage Parameter Control Support for Audio and Video Communications Guang-Liang LI (Academia Sinica) Agora --- A Personalized Digital Newsfeed Eoin Hyden and Cormac J. Sreenan (Bell Laboratories)
19:00-20:30	Dinner
Thursday, April 25, 1996
7:30-8:30	Breakfast Buffet
8:30-10:00	Technical Sessions V "Video on Demand Servers" Session Chair: Duane Northcutt (Sun Microsystems Laboratories) The Tiger Video Fileserver William J. Bolosky and Michael B. Jones (Microsoft Research) Video on Demond on the SB-PRAM Joerg Friedrich, Thomas Gruen and Joerg Keller (Universitaet des Saarlandes) I/O Channel and Real-Time Disk Scheduling for Video Servers Shenze Chen and Manu Thapar (Hewlett-Packard Labs)
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-12:00	Technical Sessions VI "Storage Architectures" Session Chair: Mike Jones (Microsoft Research) Video Pump Design for Interoperability with Set Top Units: The Case Against Small PDUs. Stephen Jacobs and Alexandros Eleftheriadis (Columbia University) A Content Based Approach to VBR Video Source Modeling Paul Bocheck and Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia University) On Evaluating the Cost-Performance Characteristics of Disk Storage Systems Supporting Continuos Media D. Venkatesh and T.D.C. Little (Boston University)
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-17:00	Excursion (To Kamakura)
17:30-18:30	PC Meeting
18:30-20:00	Banquet
20:00-22:00	Work in progress Sessions "Operating Systems Support" Session Chair: Steve Pink (Swedish Institute of Computer Science) Comparative Evaluation of Server-push and Client-pull Architectures Sriram S. Rao, Harrick M. Vin, and Ashis Tarafdar (University of Texas at Austin) A Network Striped Storage System for Video on Demand Feng Shi (University of Cambridge) Continuous Media Storage System supporting Constant Frame Rate with Variable Bit Rate Streams Tatsuo Nakajima and Hiroshi Tezuka (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Effective Utilization of Disk Bandwidth for Supporting Video-On-Demand Yen-Jen Oyang, Chih-Yuan Cheng, Meng-Huang Lee, Fu-Ching Wang, and Chun-Hung Wen (National Taiwan University) State-based Buffer-Cache Design for a Multimedia File System Thirumale N. Niranjan and Gerhard A. Schloss (State University of New York at Stony Brook) QOS Translation and Session Coordination Technique for Multimedia Systems Nobuhiko NISHIO and Hideyuki TOKUDA (Keio University) Memory and Disk Bandwidth Management in Video-on-Demand Servers Fu-Ching Wang, Chih-Yuan Cheng, Meng-Huang Lee, Chun-Hung Wen, Tzu-How Lin, Szu-Chi Wang, and Yen-Jen Oyang (National Taiwan University) Soft Real-Time Handling Methods in a Soft Real-Time Framework Changpeng Fan (German National Research Center for Information Technology) Load Balancing and VCR Functionalities Support via Subband Coding Techniques John C.S. Lui and K.W. Law (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Guaranteeing the Execution of User-Level Real-Time Threads Shuichi Oikawa and Hideyuki Tokuda (Keio University) Performance Evaluation of Extended X-Window System for Video Applications Seiji Tada (Hewlett-Packerd Japan)
Friday, April 26, 1996
7:30-8:30	Breakfast Buffet
8:30-10:00	Technical Sessions VII "QOS Control" Session Chair: Kevin Jeffay (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Q-Thread: A New Execution Model for Dynamic QOS Control of Continuous-Media Processing Kiyokuni KAWACHIYA (IBM Research Tokyo Research Laboratory) and Hideyuki TOKUDA (Keio University) Timing Control of Stream Handlers in a Distributed Multi-Threaded Environment Tobias Helbig (University of Stuttgart) Scalable Multimedia-On-Demand via World-Wide-Web (WWW) with QOS Guarantees Milind M. Buddhikot, Gurudatta M. Parulkar, and R. Gopal (Washington University)
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-12:00	Technical Sessions VIII "Mobile environment and Real-Time Window Systems" Session Chair: Hideyuki Tokuda (Keio University) Handling Continuous Media in Mobile Computing Environment Akihiro Hokimoto and Tatsuo Nakajima (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Soft State Header Compression for Wireless Networks Mikael Degermark (Lulea University) and Stephen Pink (Swedish Institute of Computer Science) Quantitative Window System Engineering John E. Sasinowski and Jay K. Strosnider (Carnegie Mellon University)
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:30	Workshop ends