15th October

The deadline for paper reviews has been postponed to the following Monday, 9am. (20th October)

27th September

The three example survey papers I shown in class have been posted under "Survey Paper".

27th September

Poster presentation for your research projects have been scheduled on 13th November.

22th September

Deadline for the research paper of your final project have been postponed to 15 November.

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Who, When and Where

Ooi Wei Tsang, Fri 6:30pm - 8:30pm @ LT34

Office Hour: Sat 11:00am - 12noon SOC1-04-20

Objectives

This module is targeted at computer science graduate students and covers the major aspects of continuous media systems -- from coding to transmission to playback. Issues such as transport protocols, control protocols, scheduling, caching, buffering, synchronization and adaptations will be examined. After taking the course, students are expected to understand the network and OS issues involved in building continuous media applications, and able to apply practical solutions to solve them.

This is a research-based course and students are expected to pick up useful research skills such as reading/writing papers, solving research problems and presenting research results.

Assessments

Continuous assessment for CS5248 consists of a research-based project (50%), paper reviews (20%), and a survey paper (30%). No final exam.

Workload

Students are expected to read at least 3-4 papers per week. Students are also expected to spend some hours on the research project, but your milage may vary.

Prerequisite

Students enrolled must have sufficient background in OS and Networking. (CS3224 or equivalent, CS2106 or equivalent).

Samples

Here are some sample papers related to this class. Take a look to see if this class is for you.

• H. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick, and V. Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications," Internet Engineering Task Force, Audio-Video Transport Working Group, Jan. 1996, RFC1889.
• C. Perkins, O. Hodson, and V. Hardman, "A survey of packet-loss recovery techniques for streaming audio," IEEE Network Magazine , Sept./Oct. 1998
• V. Jacobson S. McCanne and M. Vetterli. "Receiver-driven layered multicast," In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM'96, pages 117--130, Stanford, CA, August 1996.
• K. Hua, Y. Cai, and S. Sheu, "Patching: A multicast technique for true video-on-demand services," in Proc. ACM Multimedia, September 1998 E.L.
• J. Nieh and M. S. Lam, "The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of SMART: A Scheduler for Multimedia Applications" Proceedings of the 16 th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 184-197, Oct. 1997
• Y. hua Chu, S. G. Rao, S. Seshan, and H. Zhang. "Enabling Conferencing Applications on the Internet Using an Overlay Multicast Architecture," In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2001, San Diago, CA, August 2001

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