Announcements (AY2014/2015 Sem 1):
- NOTE: Project presentations will be during the Reading Week on 19 and 20 November 2014.
- NOTE: This module will be graded with 100% CA (no final exam).
- We will be using Asus Transformer and Samsung Galaxy Note Pro tablet computers for the module project. After the semester starts, please check out your loan tablet for the project from Mr. Chow from SoC Technical Services in the room AS6-04-27 on either Wednesday 10 September 2014 or Friday 12 September 2014 between 2:00 pm and 5:30 pm. There is one tablet per team (3 students). Mr. Chow is only available during the given timeslots. You also need to tell him who the members of your team are.
- All usual lectures will be held on Wednesdays 18:30-20:30 in room COM1/212.
- Our class project will involve video streaming to a mobile device such as a tablet computer. Specifically we will be using some Android tablets such as the Asus Transformer TF101 (shown below), the TF300 and the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro.
- We will be using the Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE) for forum discussions, announcements, and possibly other materials.
Lecture 11 (12 Novemober 2014): Peer-to-Peer Streaming
Reading List:
Slides: P2P Streaming
About CS5248 (Fall 2014)
This module is targeted at computer science graduate students and covers the major aspects of continuous media (digital video and audio) 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.
CS5248 is conducted as a research-oriented module, but with a hands-on and application oriented project. The students are still expected to pick up useful research skills such as reading and writing papers, and understanding recent research results from the course. The course includes a project which will require quite a bit of background research, programming and report writing. Students need to be familiar with Java progreamming and there will be an introduction to Java on Android programming.
Books
Here are some books related to this course.
- Dashti, Ali E. and Kim, Seon Ho and Shahabi, Cyrus and Zimmermann, Roger.
Streaming Media Server Design [ Amazon ]
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Steinmetz, Ralf and Nahrstedt, Klara.
Multimedia Systems [ Amazon ]
Students interested in this module may also be interested in:
- CS5223: Distributed Systems
- CS5225: Parallel and Distributed Database Systems
- CS5229: Advanced Computer Networks
- CS6204: Advanced Topic in Networking
- CS6282: Large Scale Distributed Systems
If you enjoy reading these papers, you will enjoy this class:
- 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