1. Special issues on multimedia communication services

   • Thomas Sikora
   • Hong Ren Wu

   Guest Editorial Pages: iii - vii

2. Guest editors' biographies

   Announcement Pages: ix - xii

3. Performance comparison of MPEG-4 and H.263+ for streaming video applications

   • Krit Panusopone
   • Ajay Luthra

   OriginalPaper Pages: 293 - 309

4. Audiovisual integration in multimedia communications based on MPEG-4 facial animation

   • Z. S. Bojkovic
   • D. A. Milovanovic

   OriginalPaper Pages: 311 - 339

5. Online traffic smoothing for delivery of variable bit rate media streams

   • Ray-I Chang
   • Meng-Chang Chen
   • Ming-Tat Ko

   OriginalPaper Pages: 341 - 359

6. Online rate control for video streams

   • Sassan Pejhan
   • Tihao Chiang
   • Ya-Qin Zhang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 361 - 373

7. Synthesis of resources sharing

   • Y. Q. Zhang
   • C. S. Choy
   • C. F. Chan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 375 - 386

8. Universal multimedia access from wired and wireless systems

   • Andrew Perkis
   • Yousri Abdeljaoued
   • Joe F. Chicharo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 387 - 402

9. Modeling and prediction of hybrid-coded variable bit rate video sources in fuzzy logic perspectives

   • Bin Qiu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 403 - 414

10. On the importance of error resilience in visual communications over noisy channels

    • Andrew Perkis

    OriginalPaper Pages: 415 - 446

11. A new efficient expression generation and automatic cloning method for multimedia actors

    • Savant Karunaratne
    • Hong Yan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 447 - 484