Integrated and Differentiated Services -- Dynamic Mapping between the Controlled-Load IntServ Service and the Assured Forward DiffServ PHB -- Analytical Approach and Verification of a DiffServ-Based Priority Service -- Evaluation of Integrated Services Support on Linux -- End-to-End QoS Mapping in IntServ-over-DiffServ Architectures -- Multicasting -- A RTT-based Partitioning Algorithm for a Multi-rate Reliable Multicast Protocol -- Towards Multi-class Based Multicast Routing -- ECN-capable Multicast Multimedia Delivery -- Peer-to-Peer Networking -- Providing Fault Tolerance for Peer-to-Peer Streaming Service -- Efficient and Scalable Client-Clustering for Proxy Cache -- Diversity Protected, Cache Based Reliable Content Distribution Building on Scalable, P2P, and Multicast Based Content Discovery -- A Measurement Study of Storage Resource and Multimedia Contents on a High-Performance Research and Education Network -- Quality of Service -- Deployment of Class-Based Routing in Wide Area Networks: Cost and Performance Assessment -- Prediction-Based Dynamic QoS Assurance for Multicast Multimedia Delivery -- A QoS Based Routing Algorithm for Multi-class Optimization in DiffServ Networks -- An Open Modular Router with QoS Capabilities -- Network and Information Management Issues -- A SMIng Based Policy Access Control for SNMPv3 -- An Innovative Resource Management Scheme for Multi-gigabit Networking Systems -- Rate-Based Active Queue Management with Token Buckets -- Towards Web-Based Information and Knowledge Management in Higher Education Institutions -- WDM Networks -- A Bi-initiation-Based Path Restoration Mechanism for Wavelength-Routed WDM Networks -- A Resource Efficient Optical Protection Scheme for IP-over-WDM Networks -- A Service and Network Management Framework for Providing Guaranteed QoS IP Services over WDM -- The Study on the Traffic Modeling with PI and the Design for the All Optical Network Modeling with WDM in Korea -- Mobile and Wireless Networks -- Multihoming with Mobile IP -- Dynamic Proportional Delay Differentiation Scheduling over IEEE 802.11 Wireless Network -- Bluetooth Throughput Improvement Using a Slave to Slave Piconet Formation -- Parallel Parsing of MPEG Video in Heterogeneous Distributed Environment -- User-Assisted Segmentation and Tracking of Video Objects -- An Efficient Rate-Distortion Analysis Model for MPEG Video -- Multiple Description Coding for Quincunx Images. Application to Satellite Transmission -- CDMA -- Base Station Joint Scheduling for Downlink Throughput Maximization in CDMA Packet Data Networks -- Implementation of Digital Transceiver for Multiple CDMA Signals -- The Implementation of 256 QAM CDMA Modulator -- Real Time Issues and Protocols for IP Networks -- HIDRA: HIstory Directed Routing Algorithm for IP Networks -- A Dimensioning Strategy for Almost Guaranteed Quality of Service in Voice over IP Networks -- An Admission Control Scheme for Voice Traffic over IP Networks -- IP Concatenation: The Method for Enhancement of IPsec Performance -- Multimedia Streaming -- Analysis Tool for a Video-on-Demand Service Based in Streaming Technology -- Extending an Open MPEG-4 Video Streaming Platform to Exploit a Differentiated Services Network -- Multiple Description Coding for Video Streaming over Wireless Networks -- A Playout Time Oriented Retransmission Scheme for Multimedia Streaming Systems -- Optical Switching and Performance Monitoring -- On the Capacity Requirements of ASONs versus OTNs -- Crosstalk Effects in Large Strictly Non-blocking Optical Switches Based on Directional Couplers -- Multiplexers and Demultiplexers Based on Fibre Bragg Gratings and Optical Circulators for DWDM Systems -- Optical Performance Monitoring in High Speed Transparent DWDM Networks through Asynchronous Sampling -- TCP Performance -- Performance Comparision between TCP-Reno and Freeze-Snoop TCP/SACK over cdma2000 Network Environments -- RD-TCP: Reorder Detecting TCP -- Explicit Loss Notification to Improve TCP Performance over Wireless Networks -- Comparing Performance of SRAMT-LE Vs. Other Layered Encoding Schemes Regarding TCP Friendliness -- Voice over IP -- Design and Development of a SIP-based Video Conferencing Application -- Optimal On-Demand VoIP Quality in an H.323 Network -- VAD for VoIP Using Cepstrum -- Development of a Voice over IP Applications for a Metropolitan Area Network -- Traffic Models -- Traffic Model Characterization of an HFC Network -- Modeling Self-similar Traffic through Markov Modulated Poisson Processes over Multiple Time Scales -- Evaluation of Steady-State Probability of Pareto/M/1/K Experiencing Tail-Raising Effect -- A Comparative Study on Simulation Models for Self-similar Traffic.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networking and Multimedia Communication, HSNMC 2003, held in Estoril, Portugal in July 2003. The 57 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on integrated differentiated services, multicatsting, peer-to-peer networking, quality of service, QoS, network and information management, WDM networks, mobile and wireless networks, video, CDMA, real time issues and protocols for IP networks, multimedia streaming, TCP performance, voice over IP, and traffic models.