Announcements (AY2012/2013 Sem 1):
- NOTE: This module will be graded with 100% CA (no final exam).
- We will be using Asus Transformer tablet computers for the module
project. After the semester starts, please check out your loan Transformer for
the project from SoC Technical Services (on the first floor of COM1).
There is one tablet per team (2 students). Please make an appointment with Mr.
Chow Chin Ming
- (All usual lectures might be held on Wednesdays 18:30-20:30 in room COM1/212.) Lecture day and time still need to be confirmed.
- Our class project will involve video streaming to a mobile device such as a tablet computer. Specifically we will be using the Android tablet Asus Transformer TF101 (shown below).
- We will be using the Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE) for forum discussions, announcements, and possibly other materials.
Lecture 1 (15 August 2012): Introduction to MPEG Compression
Reading List:
Slides: Introduction,
Compression,
Applet: DCT Demo,
Video: Surfing_short.m2t
(MPEG-2 HD Transport Stream, 98 MB)
About CS5248 (Fall 2012)
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