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Multimedia Networking Reading List

Spring 2009

Introduction

[CHW99] J. Crowcroft, M. Handley, and I. Wakeman. Internetworking Multimedia, Chapter 4, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1991, ISBN 1-55860-584-3.

[Tr96] J. Tranter. Linux Multimedia Guide, 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, Volume 54, Number 2, February 1975, Page 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

[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)

[ZKSR03] M. Zink, O. Kunzel, J. Schmitt, and R. Steinmetz. Subjective Impression of Variations in Layer Encoded Videos, In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Monterey, California, USA, June 2003. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[MSM04] J. McCarthy, M. A. Sasse and D. Miras. Sharp or Smooth? Comparing the Effects of Quantization vs. Frame Rate for Streamed Video. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, April 20-24, 2004. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[KS08] H. Knoche and M. A. Sasse. The Sweet Spot: How People Trade Off Size and Definition on Mobile Devices, In Proceeding of the 16th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Pages 21-30, October 2008.


Measurement of Multimedia

[LCKN05] M. Li, M. Claypool, R. Kinicki and J. Nichols. Characteristics of Streaming Media Stored on the Web, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Volume 5, Number 5, November 2005. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[GALM07] P. Gill, M. Arlitt, Z. Li, A. Mahanti. YouTube Traffic Characterization: A View From the Edge, ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), San Diego, CA, USA, October 2007. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[KW02] T. Kuang and C. Williamson. RealMedia Streaming Performance on an IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN, In Proceedings of IASTED Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC) Conference, pp. 306-311, Banff, AB, Canada, July 2002. (slides: ppt, pdf)


Delay Buffering

[SJ95] D. Stone and K. Jeffay. An Empirical Study of Delay Jitter Management Policies, ACM Multimedia Systems, Volume 2, Number 6, Pages 267-279, January 1995. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[WCCL09] Chen-Chi Wu, Kaun-Ta Chen, Yu-Chun Chang and Chin-Laung Lei. An Empirical Evaluation of VoIP Playout Buffer Dimensioning in Skype, Google Talk, and MSN Messenger, In Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Williamsburg, VA, USA, June 2009. (slides: ppt, pdf)


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)

[WCK08] H. Wu, M. Claypool and R. Kinicki. ARMOR - A System for Adjusting Repair and Media Scaling for Video Streaming, Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCIR), Volume 19, Number 8, Pages 489-499, December 2008. (slides: ppt, pdf)


Protocols

[GKLW02] A. Goel, C. Krasic, K. Li, and J. Walpole. Supporting Low Latency TCP-Based Media Streams. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Miami Beach, Florida, USA, May 2002. (slides: ppt, pdf)

[CC06] J. Chung and M. Claypool. Empirical Evaluation of the Congestion Responsiveness of RealPlayer Video Streams, Kluwer Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 31, Number 2, November 2006. (slides: ppt, pdf)


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)


Router Support

[HKBT01] P. Hurley, M. Kara, J. Le Boudec, and P. Thiran. ABE: Providing a Low Delay within Best Effort, IEEE Network Magazine, May/June 2001. (slides: ppt, pdf)


Network Games

[SKH02] J. Smed, T. Kaukoranta and H. Hakonen. Aspects of Networking in Multiplayer Computer Games, The Electronic Library, Volume 20, Number 2, Pages 87-97, 2002. (slides: ppt, pdf)


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