Sep 21: Media Server (Chapter 4: Multimedia Systems - cont) and Networks (Chapter 6.4 and 6.5: Multimedia Systems) (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
Sep 26: Synchronization (Chapter 8: Multimedia Systems ) (PDF, PPT, No video. Lost battery for wireless microphone and so you’d have to lipread. Sorry!!)
Sep 28: (Home work project 2 due) Synchronization (Chapter 8: Multimedia Systems - cont) (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
Oct 3: Group communication (Chapter 7: Multimedia Systems) (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
Oct 12: (Course project proposal due) Cherkasova, L. and Gupta, M. Analysis of enterprise media server workloads: access patterns, locality, content evolution, and rates of change. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 12, 5 (Oct. 2004), 781-794. (PDF) DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2004.836125(PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
Oct 24: Travel: ACM Multimedia. Guest lecture by William Acosta.
Gummadi, K. P., Dunn, R. J., Saroiu, S., Gribble, S. D., Levy, H. M., and Zahorjan, J. Measurement, modeling, and analysis of a peer-to-peer file-sharing workload. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (Bolton Landing, NY, USA, October 19 - 22, 2003), 314-329. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/945445.945475
Oct 26: (Class cancelled. Stuck in CVG airport) Zimmermann, R., Pawar, M., Desai, D. A., Qin, M., and Zhu, H. High resolution live streaming with the HYDRA architecture. Comput. Entertain. 2, 4 (Oct. 2004), 16-16. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1037851.1037876
Oct 31: Ott, D. E. and Mayer-Patel, K. 2004. Coordinated multi-streaming for 3D tele-immersion. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACM international Conference on Multimedia (New York, NY, USA, October 10 - 16, 2004). MULTIMEDIA '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 596-603. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1027527.1027669 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
Nov 2: Prof. Klara Nahrstedt’s visit to department. Attend colloquium. In the class, we will discuss:
Baker, H. H., Bhatti, N., Tanguay, D., Sobel, I., Gelb, D., Goss, M. E., Culbertson, W. B., and Malzbender, T. 2005. Understanding performance in coliseum, an immersive videoconferencing system. ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. 1, 2 (May. 2005), 190-210. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1062253.1062258 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
Nov 7: Travel: OSDI. Class will be a video conference.
Liu, X., Corner, M., and Shenoy, P. SEVA: sensor-enhanced video annotation. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM international Conference on Multimedia (Hilton, Singapore, November 06 - 11, 2005), 618-627. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101149.1101290 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
Nov 9: (Home work 2 due) Feng, W., Kaiser, E., Feng, W. C., and Baillif, M. L. Panoptes: scalable low-power video sensor networking technologies. ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. 1, 2 (May. 2005), 151-167. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1062253.1062256 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
Nov 14: (Course project status report due) Kulkarni, P., Ganesan, D., Shenoy, P., and Lu, Q. SensEye: a multi-tier camera sensor network. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM international Conference on Multimedia (Hilton, Singapore, November 06 - 11, 2005), 229-238. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1101149.1101191 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
Nov 16: Jie Huang, Wu-chi Feng, Jon Walpole, Wilfried Jouve. Experimental Analysis of DCT-Based Approaches for Fine-Grain Multi-Resolution Video. SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking 2005, Jan. 2005. [PDF] (PDF, PPT, Wu-Chi PPT from Wu-chi, Video, GoogleVideo)
Nov 21:Feng, W., Chang, F., Feng, W., and Walpole, J. 2005. A traffic characterization of popular on-line games. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 13, 3 (Jun. 2005), 488-500. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2005.850221 (ACM) and Mark Claypool and Kajal Claypool. Latency and Player Actions in Online Games, Communications of the ACM, Volume 49, Issue 11, Pages 40-45 (Nov 2006) DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1167838.1167860 (PDF, PPT, No video capture. The camcorder complained about moisture in tape and asked me to remove the tape. Next, it asked to be shutdown for an hour. I have no idea why there is moisture inside the camcorder!! I attempted a audio capture from powerpoint. Powerpoint only recorded a 22 minute lecture - the actual class was 75 minutes!!)
Nov 28: Gargolinski, S., St. Pierre, C., and Claypool, M. 2005. Game server selection for multiple players. In Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support For Games (Hawthorne, NY, October 10 - 11, 2005). NetGames '05. ACM Press, New York, NY, 1-6. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1103599.1103616 (PDF, PPT, Video, GoogleVideo)
Nov 30: Claypool, M. 2005. On the 802.11 turbulence of Nintendo DS and Sony PSP hand-held network games. In Proceedings of 4th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network and System Support For Games (Hawthorne, NY, October 10 - 11, 2005). NetGames '05. ACM Press, New York, NY, 1-9. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1103599.1103618
Dec 5: Final project presentation and course wrapup
Interesting papers:
Sripanidkulchai, K., Ganjam, A., Maggs, B., and Zhang, H. 2004. The feasibility of supporting large-scale live streaming applications with dynamic application end-points. In Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols For Computer Communications (Portland, Oregon, USA, August 30 - September 03, 2004). SIGCOMM '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, 107-120. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1015467.1015480
Reddy, A. L., Wyllie, J., and Wijayaratne, K. B. 2005. Disk scheduling in a multimedia I/O system. ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl. 1, 1 (Feb. 2005), 37-59. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1047936.1047941
Wanghong Yuan, Klara Nahrstedt, Sarita Adve, Douglas L. Jones and Robin H. Kravets. GRACE-1: Cross-Layer Adaptation for Multimedia Quality and Battery Energy. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Volume 5, No 7, July 2006. DOI=http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TMC.2006.98
Yuan, W. and Nahrstedt, K. 2006. Energy-efficient CPU scheduling for multimedia applications. ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 24, 3 (Aug. 2006), 292-331. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1151690.1151693