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CS395T: Multimedia Communication and Databases

Fall 1995

Instructor: Harrick M. Vin

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Course Description

General Information

Course Title: CS395T: Multimedia Communication and Databases
Instructor: Professor Harrick M. Vin
Semester: Fall 1995
Meeting Time: Friday 10:00 - 1:00, TAY 3.144

Prerequisites

Graduate standing, familiarity with basic concepts in network protocols and operating system design, and the CS395T: Multimedia Systems course.

Synopsis

This is an advanced course in multimedia systems. Topics to be discussed in this course include: transport protocol design for multimedia, routing and multicasting, mobile networking and multimedia, operating system support for multimedia, and multimedia databases. An emphasis will be placed on current design issues and research topics.

Textbook(s)

A collection of research articles will be made available by the instructor.

Course Requirements

Students will be required to read a number of papers in the area as well as present and discuss them in class. Grades will be determined based on paper presentations and class participation. Students enrolling for a letter grade will be required to submit a paper and/or carry out a project.

Office Hours

Friday 2:00 - 3:00, TAY 4.115B
By appointment: Phone: 471-9732, E-mail: vin@cs.utexas.edu

Reading List

Multimedia Conferencing

  1. S. McCanne and V. Jacobson, ``vic: A Flexible Framework for Packet Video'', In Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia'95, San Francisco, CA., November 1995
  2. M. Handley, I. Wakeman, and J. Crowcroft, ``The Conference Control Channel Protocol (CCCP): A Scalable Base for Building Conference Control Applications'', In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'95, Boston, MA., 1995
  3. H. Gajewska, J. Kistler, M. Manasse, and D. Redell, ``Argo: A System for Distributed Collaborations'', In Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia'94, San Francisco, CA., November 1994
  4. F. Gong, ``Multipoint Audio and Video Control for Packet-based Multimedia Conferencing'', In Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia'94, San Francisco, CA., November 1994
  5. H.M. Vin, P.T. Zellweger, D.C. Swinehart, and P. Venkat Rangan, ``Multimedia Conferencing in the Etherphone Environment'', IEEE Computer, Vol. 24, No. 10, October 1991


Routing and Multicasting

  1. S. Deering and D. Cheriton, ``Multicast Routing in Datagram Internetworks and Extended LANS'', ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 8, No. 2, Pages 85-110, May 1990
  2. T. Ballardie, P. Francis, and J. Crowcroft, ``Core Based Trees (CBT): An Architecture for Scalable Inter-Domain Multicast Routing'', In Proceedings of SIGCOMM'93 , Pages 85-95, 1993
  3. A. Thyagarajan and S. E. Deering, ``Hierarchical Distance Vector Multicast Routing for the MBone'', In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'95, Boston, MA., 1995
  4. R. Widyono, ``The Design and Evaluation of Routing Algorithms for Real-time Channels'', MS Thesis, UC Berkeley, 1994
  5. V. Kompella, J C. Pasquale, and G C. Polyzos, ``Multicast Routing for Multimedia Communication'', Technical Report, University of California at San Diego, 1994
  6. S. Floyd, V. Jacobson, S. McCanne, L. Zhang, and C. Liu, ``A Reliable Multicast Framework for Light-weight Sessions and Application Level Framing'', In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'95, Boston, MA., 1995
  7. H. W. Holbrook, S. K. Singhal and D. R. Cheriton, ``Log-Based Receiver-Reliable Multicast for Distributed Interactive Simulation'', In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM'95, Boston, MA., 1995
  8. S. Herzog, D. Estrin and S. Shenker, ``Sharing the Cost of Multicast Trees: An Axiomatic Analysis'', In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'95, Boston, MA., 1995
  9. A. Gupta, W. Howe, M. Moran, and Q. Nguyen, ``Resource Sharing for multi-party real-time communication'', In Proceedings of Infocom'95. , 1995


Internet Services

  1. J. D. Guyton and M. F. Schwartz, ``Locating Nearby Copies of Replicated Internet Servers'', In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'95, 1995
  2. J. C. Mogul, ``The Case for Persistent-Connection HTTP'', In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'95, 1995


Processor Scheduling and OS Support

  1. C. Warldersburg and W. E. Weihl, ``Lottery Scheduling: Efficient, Flexible Proportional Share Resource Mangement'', In Proceedings of Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI), 1994
  2. C. Warldersburg and W. E. Weihl, ``Stride Scheduling: Deterministic Proportional-Share Resource Management'', Technical Report MIT/LCS/TM-528, 1995
  3. S.J. Golestani, ``A Self-Clocked Fair Queueing Scheme for High Speed Applications'', In Proceedings of INFOCOM'94, 1994
  4. R. Govindan and D.P. Anderson, ``Scheduling and IPC Mechanisms for Continuous Media'', In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Monterey, CA., 1991
  5. K. Jeffay, ``The Real-Time Producer/Consumer Paradigm: A paradigm for the construction of efficient, predictable real-time systems'', In Proceedings of the ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, 1993
  6. K. Jeffay, ``On latency Management in Time-Shared Operating Systems'', In 11th Workshop on Real-Time Operating Systems and Software, Seattle, May 1994


Multimedia Databases

  1. W. Niblack et al., ``The QBIC Project: Querying Images by Content Using Color, Texture, and Shape'', IBM Technical Report, February 1993
  2. A. Cawkell, ``Picture Queries and Picture Databases'', Journal of Information Science, Vol. 19, Pages 409-423, 1993
  3. J.R. Bach, S. Paul, and R. Jain, ``An Interactive Image Management System for Face Information Retrieval'', IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 4, Pages 619-628, August 1993.
  4. A. Gupta, T. Weymouth, and R. Jain, ``Semantic Queries with Pictures: VIMSYS Model'', In Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Very Large Databases, 1991

Harrick Vin
Thu Sep 14 10:37:26 CDT 1995