Twelfth Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN '05)

Important Updates:

• Keynote slides available
• Technical program available
• Keynote presentation: "Whither Ubiquitous Video?", Prof. Lawrence A. Rowe, University of California, Berkeley

Technical program highlights:

• Session 1: Peer to peer streaming
  • Verifying data integrity in peer-to-peer media streaming Ahsan Habib (UC Berkeley), Dongyan Xu (Purdue) Mikhail Atallah (Purdue), Bharat Bhargava (Purdue) and John Chuang (UC Berkeley)
  • Adaptive multi-source streaming in heterogeneous peer-to-peer networks Vikash Agarwal (U. Oregon), Reza Rejaie (U. Oregon)
  • ACTIVE: adaptive low-latency peer-to-peer streaming Leslie Liu (IMSC/USC), Roger Zimmermann (IMSC/USC)
  • Swarm: a multimedia delivery network for highly dynamic networking environments Justin Denney (Lancaster U, UK), Nicholas Race (Lancaster U, UK)
• Session 2: Video Servers
  • A unified benchmarking and model-based framework for building qos-aware streaming media services Lucy Cherkasova (HP Labs), Wenting Tang (HP Labs), Amin Vahdat (UCSD)
  • Loopback: exploiting collaborative caches for large-scale streaming Ewa Kusmierek (U Minnesota), Yingfei Dong (U Hawaii), David Hung-Chang Du (U Minnesota)
  • Dagster: contributor-aware end-host multicast for media streaming in heterogeneous environment Wei Tsang Ooi (National University of Singapore)
  • Towards robust AV conferencing on next-generation networks Haining Liu (UC Irvine), Liang Cheng (UC Irvine), Magda El Zarki (UC Irvine)
• Session 3: Multimedia systems (Short papers)
  • Automated QoS support for multimedia disk access Joel Wu (UC Santa Cruz), Scott Banachowski (UC Santa Cruz), Scott Brandt (UC Santa Cruz)
  • Randomized load balancing in scalable storage systems Kun Fu (USC), Roger Zimmermann (USC)
  • Resilient peer-to-peer multicast without the cost Stefan Birrer (Northwestern), Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern)
  • Monitoring of cache miss rates for accurate dynamic voltage and frequency scaling Leo Singleton (GATECH), Christian Poellabauer (GATECH/Notre Dame), Karsten Schwan (GATECH)
  • TCP-RC: a receiver-centered TCP protocol for delay-sensitive applications Doug McCreary (U Georgia), Kang Li (U Georgia), Scott Watterson (U Georgia), David Lowenthal (U Georgia)
  • Reconfigurable, on-the-fly, resource-aware, streaming pipeline scheduler Michael Bradshaw (UMass), Jim Kurose (UMass), Lela Page (UMass), Prashant Shenoy (UMass), Don Towsley (Umass)
  • Efficiency and late data choice in a user-kernel interface for congestion-controlled datagrams Junwen Lai (Princeton), Eddie Kohler (UCLA)
  • Managing heterogeneous wireless environments via Hotspot servers Tajana Simunic Rosing (HP Labs), Wajahat Qadeer (Stanford), Giovanni De Micheli (Stanford)
• Session 4: Video Coding
  • Towards robust AV conferencing on next-generation networks Haining Liu (UC Irvine), Liang Cheng (UC Irvine), Magda El Zarki (UC Irvine)
  • Bandwidth reduction for video-on-demand broadcasting using secondary content insertion Alexander Golynski (U Waterloo, Canada), Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz (U Waterloo, Canada), Guillaume Poirier (U Waterloo, Canada), Claude-Guy Quimper (U Waterloo, Canada)
  • Exploiting content-based networking for fine granularity multi-receiver video streaming Viktor S. Wold Eide, Simula Research Lab. (Norway) and Univ. of Oslo (Norway); Frank Eliassen, Simula Research Lab. (Norway); Jørgen Andreas Michaelsen, Univ. of Oslo (Norway)
• Session 5: Applications
  • Measurements-based performance evaluation of 3G wireless networks supporting m-health services Katarzyna Wac (U Geneva, Switzerland), Richard Bults (U Twente, Netherlands), Aart van Halteren (U Twente, Netherlands), Dimitri Konstantas (U Geneva, Switzerland), Victor Nicola (U Twente, Netherlands)
  • Autonomous analysis of interactive systems with self-propelled instrumentation Alexander Mirgorodskiy (U Wisconsin), Barton Miller (U Wisconsin)
  • AVPUC: automatic video production with user customization Bin Yu (UIUC), Klara Nahrstedt (UIUC)
• Session 6: Video Streaming
  • Multi-path streaming: optimization and evaluation Bassem Abdouni (USC), William Cheng (USC), Alix L.H. Chow (USC), Leana Golubchik (USC), Adam Lee (U Maryland), John Lui (CUHK, Hong Kong, China)
  • Service composition for advanced multimedia applications Jin Liang (UIUC), Klara Nahrstedt (UIUC)
  • Experimental analysis of DCT-based approaches for fine-grain multi-resolution video Jie Huang (Portland State U), Wu-chi Feng (Portland State U), Jonathan Walpole (Portland State U), Wilfried Jouve (Portland State U)