This book contributes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Multimedia Interactive Protocols and Systems, MIPS 2004, held in Grenoble, France in November 2004.
The 20 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers peseted were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. the papers are organized in topical sections on VoIP and audio transport, video encoding, multi-source multimedia, multicasting und broadcasting, scheduling schemes, content management, multimedia services, and security.