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Multimedia Computing Reading List

Spring 2001

Introduction

[Tr96] J. Tranter. Linux Multimedia Guide, Chapter 2 and Chapter 4, O'Reilly & Associates, 1996, ISBN: 1565922190.

[KR99] J. Kurose and K. Ross. Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Chapter 6.1, Chapter 6.2 and Chapter 6.3, Addison Wesley Longman, 1999.

[RS75] L. Rabiner and M. Sambur. An Algorithm for Determining the Endpoints of Isolated Utterances, The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 54, No. 2, Feb. 1975, pp. 297--315. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[Le91] D. Le Gall. MPEG: A Video Compression Standard for Multimedia Applications, Communications of the ACM, Volume 34, Number 4, Pages 46-58, 1991. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[LPHT95] P. Lukowicz, E. Heinz, L. Prechelt, W. Tichy. Experimental Evaluation in Computer Science: A Quantitative Study, Journal of Systems and Software, 28(1):9-18, January 1995. (slides: ppt, pdf)

Multimedia Perceptual Quality

[WS98] A. Watson and M. A. Sasse. Measuring Perceived Quality of Speech and Video in Multimedia Conferencing Applications, In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Conference, Bristol, UK, September 1998. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[WS00] A. Watson and M. A. Sasse. The Good, the Bad, and the Muffled: the Impact of Different Degradations on Internet Speech, In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 2000. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[CT99] M. Claypool and J. Tanner. The Effects of Jitter on the Perceptual Quality of Video, ACM Multimedia Conference, Volume 2, Orlando, FL, October 30 - November 5, 1999. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[GT98] G. Ghinea and J.P. Thomas. QoS Impact on User Perception and Understanding of Multimedia Video Clips, In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Conference, Bristol, UK, September 1998. (slides: ppt, pdf)

Multimedia Protocols

[PFOC00] M. Piecuch, K. French, G. Oprica and M. Claypool. A Selective Retransmission Protocol for Multimedia on the Internet, In Proceedings of SPIE Multimedia Systems and Applications, Boston, MA, USA, November 5-8, 2000. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[CC00a] J. Chung and M. Claypool. Better-Behaved, Better-Performing Multimedia Networking, SCS Euromedia Conference (COMTEC), Antwerp, Belgium, May 8-10, 2000. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[FHPW00] S. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye and J. Widmer. Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Conference pp 45-58, 2000. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[RHE99] R. Rejaie, M. Handely and D. Estrin. RAP: An End-to-end Rate-based Congestion Control Mechanism for Realtime Streams in the Internet In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, 1999. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[FHP00] S. Floyd, M. Handley, and J. Padhye. A Comparison of Equation-Based and AIMD Congestion Control, Preliminary version, May 2000. (slides: ppt, pdf)

Multimedia Repair

[PHH98] C. Perkins, O. Hodson and V. Hardman. A Survey of Packet-Loss Recovery Techniques for Streaming Audio, IEEE Network Magazine, Sep/Oct, 1998. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[HSK98] V. Hardman, M. A. Sasse and I. Kouvelas. Successful Multiparty Audio Communication over the Internet, Communications of the ACM, Volume 41, Number 5, 1998. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[ZCL01] Y. Zhu, M. Claypool, and Y. Liu. Using Redundancy and Interleaving to Ameliorate the Effects of Packet Loss in a Video Stream, Technical Report WPI-CS-TR-01-05, Computer Science Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, March 2001. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[PCM00] C. Padhye, K. Christensen and W. Moreno. A New Adaptive FEC Loss Control Algorithm for Voice Over IP Applications, In Proceedings of IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communication Conference, February 2000. (slides: ppt, pdf)

Router Support for Multimedia

[PJS99] M. Parris, K. Jeffay, and F.D. Smith. Lightweight Active Router-Queue Management for Multimedia Networking, In Proceedings Multimedia Computing and Networking, San Jose, California, USA, January 1999. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[CC00b] J. Chung and M. Claypool. Dynamic-CBT and ChIPS - Router Support for Improved Multimedia Performance on the Internet, In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 2000. (slides: ppt, pdf)

Multimedia and Multicast

[MJV96] S. McCanne, V. Jacobsen and M. Vetterli. Receiver-driven Layered Multicast, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Stanford, California, USA, 1996. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[XMZY97] X. Xu, A. Myers, H. Zhang and R. Yavatkar. Resilient Multicast Support for Continuous-Media Applications, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), 1997. (slides: ppt, pdf)

Operating System Support for Multimedia

[SCG+00] V. Sundaram, A. Chandra, P. Goyal, P. Shenoy, J. Sahni and H. Vin. Application Performance in the QLinux Multimedia Operating System, In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 2000. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[Sch96] H. Schulzrinne. Operating System Issues for Continuous Media, Multimedia Systems, vol. 4, pp. 269-280, October 1996.


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