Advance reservations for predictive service -- Distributed advance reservation of real-time connections -- Issues of reserving resources in advance -- A computational and engineering view on open distributed real-time multimedia exchange -- Support for user-centric modular real-time resource management in the Rialto operating system -- A rate-based execution abstraction for multimedia computing -- VuSystem performance measurements -- Design of universal continuous media I/O -- A new OS architecture for high performance communication over ATM Networks -- Meeting arbitrary QoS constraints using Dynamic Rate Shaping of coded digital video -- Dynamic QoS management for scalable video flows -- Dynamic service aggregation for efficient use of resources in interactive video delivery -- Evaluation of QOS-Control Servers on Real-Time Mach -- System-level resource management for network-based multimedia applications -- Session IV: A NOSSDAV retrospective -- An end to end software only scalable video delivery system -- A distributed real-time MPEG video audio player -- Analysis of audio packet loss in the internet -- Digital audio and video in industrial systems -- Workstation video playback performance with competitive process load -- When can we unplug the radio and telephone? -- An Adaptive Stream Synchronization Protocol -- A Method and apparatus for measuring media synchronization -- Integrated processor scheduling for multimedia -- Scheduling and admission testing for jitter constrained periodic threads -- A CPU scheduling algorithm for continuous media applications -- Dynamic configuration of conferencing applications using pattern-matching multicast -- WAVE: A new multicast routing algorithm for static and dynamic multicast groups -- Connection establishment for multi-party real-time communication -- The role of multicast communication in the provision of scalable and interactive Video-On-Demand service -- RED-VBR: A new approach to support delay-sensitive VBR video in packet-switched networks -- Determining end-to-end delay bounds in heterogeneous networks -- Adaptive QoS-based API for ATM networking -- Burst scheduling networks: Flow specification and performance guarantees -- A novel video-on-demand storage architecture for supporting constant frame rate with variable bit rate retrieval -- The design and implementation of a RAID-3 multimedia file server -- Efficient data layout, scheduling and playout control in MARS -- Storage replication and layout in Video-On-Demand servers -- Scalable MPEG2 video servers with heterogeneous QoS on parallel disk arrays -- The design of a variable bit rate continuous media server.

This book constitutes the refereed revised post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, NOSSDAV '95, held in Durham, New Hampshire, USA in April 1995. The 24 full papers included were selected from a total of 101 submissions; together with overviews by the session chairpersons they reflect the state of the art in networking and operating systems support for multimedia. The papers are organized in sections on advance reservation systems, operating systems support, resource management and quality of service, audio and video systems, and scheduling and synchronization.