Group Communications and Charges. Technology and Business Models [electronic resource] : 5th COST 264 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 / edited by Burkhard Stiller, Georg Carle, Martin Karsten, Peter Reichl.

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.