Foreword. Preface. Part 1: Multimedia Communications. 1. Introduction. 2. Multimedia Communication Elements. 3. The Internet Stream Protocol. 4. Implementing the ST-II Protocol. Part 2: Network Layer Techniques. 5. Receiver-Oriented Communication. 6. Filtering Hierarchical Substreams. 7. Inter-Stream Relationships. 8. A Comparison with RSVP. Part 3: Transport Layer Techniques. 9. HeiTP: A Transport Layer Over ST-II. 10. Reliability and Congestion Control. 11. Conclusion. References. Appendix: RFC1819. 1. Introduction. 2. ST2 User Service Description. 3. The ST2 Data Transfer Protocol. 4. SCMP Functional Description. 5. Exceptional Cases. 6. Failure Detection and Recovery. 7. A Group of Streams. 8. Ancillary Functions. 9. The ST2+ Flow Specification. 10. ST2 Protocol Data Units Specification. 11. Security Considerations. 12. Acknowledgments and Authors' Addresses. 13. References. Index. Language: English