DIMACS Workshop on Multimedia Streaming on the Internet

June 12 - 13, 2000
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Lixin Gao, Smith College, gao@cs.smith.edu

Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs, jrex@research.att.com

Workshop Program:

Monday June 12, 2000

Morning

Breakfast and Registration: 8:15 - 8:45

Welcome and Greeting: 8:50 - 9:00
Fred Roberts, Director of DIMACS

9:00-10:00

Keynote:

  Internet Media Delivery Systems: Current Design, Open Issues, Research
  Problems.
  Yuriy A. Reznik, Sr. Research Scientist, RealNetworks, Inc.

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30-12:30

Session: Proxy Servers

  10:30-11:00  
     The role of network proxies in supporting multimedia streaming
     Antonio Ortega
     University of Southern California

  11:00-11:30
     Video Caching and Delivery Using Proxy Server for Reducing Bandwidth
     Requirement over Wide Area Networks
     Weihsiu Ma and David H.C. Du
     University of Minnesota

  11:30-12:00
     Issues in Design and Evaluations of Multimedia Proxy Caching Mechanisms for the Internet       
     Reza Rejaie; AT&T Labs - Research
     Haobo Yu; USC/ISI

  12:00-12:30
     Traffic Smoothing for Network Wide Streaming of Multimedia Traffic
     JunBiao Zhang and Joseph Hui
     Arizona State University


12:30-2:00 Lunch


2:00-3:30

Session: Content Distribution

  2:00-2:30  
    Decentralized movie distribution in the Internet
    Carsten Griwodz and Michael Zink
    Damstadt University of Technology, Germany
    
  2:30-3:00
    On Content Delivery Networks for Streaming Media
    David Shur
    AT&T Labs -- Research

  3:00-3:30
    Selecting among Replicated Multicast Video Servers
    Mostafa H. Ammar
    Georgia Institute of Technology


3:30-4:00 Break

4:00-5:30 Panel: Multimedia Streaming and Network Interaction 

5:30-  Reception

Tuesday June 13, 2000

9:00-9:30  Breakfast and Registration

9:30-10:30

Session: Reliability and Loss

   9:30-10:00
   Adaptive Streaming of Stored Layered Video over Lossy Channels
   Srihari Nelakuditi,  Zhi-Li Zhang, Sandeep C. Rao
   University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

   10:00-10:30
   Optimal Streaming of Layered Video
   Despina Saparilla
   Institut Eurecom  

Break

11:00-12:00

Session: Resource Tradeoff

   11:00-11:30 
   Frame-Based Periodic Broadcast and Fundamental Resource Tradeoffs
   Subhabrata Sen
   University of Massachusetts, Amherst

   11:30-12:00
   Algorithms for On-Demand Stream Merging
   Amotz Bar-Noy, AT&T Shannon Labs
   Richard E. Ladner, University of Washington and AT&T Shannon Labs

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00

Session: Multimedia Delivery

   1:00-1:30
   TCP-Like Flow Control for Multimedia Streaming using TCP Emulation at Receiver (TEAR)
   Injong Rhee
   North Carolina State University

   Injong Rhee SLIDES

   1:30-2:00
   The Design and Implementation of a Media Independent Streaming Service
   for Stored Video Applications
   Wu-chi Feng
   Ohio State University
   

2:00-3:30 Open Problem and Challenge Session

3:30-4:00 Break

4:00-5:30

Session: Multimedia System Design

   4:00-4:30
   Striping Doesn't Scale: How to Achieve Scalability for Continuous Media
   Servers with Replication
   Leana Golubchik
   University of Maryland

   4:30-5:00
   Semantic Transformation of Multimedia Streams inside an Active Network
   Maximilian Ott
   C&C Research Laboratories, NEC USA, Inc.

   5:00-5:30
   eSeminar Project Overview
   Martin G. Kienzle
   IBM Research

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