Panel Discussion: How Will Media Distribution Work in the Internet?

The panelists discuss the directions that future QoSre search should to support distributed multimedia applications in the Internet, in particular applications that rely on audio and video streaming.

While real-time streaming services that are already deployed attract only a minor share of the overall network traffic and have only a minor impact on the network, this is in part due to the distribution infrastructures that are already in place to reduce network and server loads.

However, it is questionable whether these infrastructures for non-interactive applications, that rely largely on the regional over-provisioning of resources, will also be capable of supporting future multimedia applications. The panelists discuss their views of the current and future demand for more sophisticated QoSm echanisms and the resulting research issues.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Columbia University, USA

   Andrew Campbell

2. University of Oslo, Oslo

   Carsten Griwodz

3. University of Virginia, Virginia

   Joerg Liebeherr

4. University of Ottawa, Ottawa

   Dwight Makaroff

5. tecmath AG, Germany

   Andreas Mauthe

6. University of Napoli, Napoli

   Giorgio Ventre

7. Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt

   Michael Zink

Editors and Affiliations

1. Faculty of Informatics and Computing Center Institute of Telematics, University of Karlsruhe, Zirkel 2, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

   Lars Wolf

2. Faculty of Applied Sciences, Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK

   David Hutchison

3. GMD IPSI, German National Research Center for Information Technology Integrated Publication and Information Systems, Dolivostr. 15, 64293, Darmstadt, Germany

   Ralf Steinmetz

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