Lecture Schedules and Reading List

Lecture 12: Peer-to-Peer Streaming

Reading List:

Resilient Peer-to-Peer Streaming V. N. Padmanabhan, H. J. Wang, P. A. Chou; ICNP 2003, Atlanta, GA. [CoopNet Home Page] Dagster: Contributor Aware Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming in Heterogeneous Environment W. T. Ooi; ACM/SPIE MMCN 2005.

Slides: P2P Streaming

Lecture 11: Application-Level Multicast

Reading List:

Scalable Application Layer Multicast S. Banerjee, B. Bhattacharjee, and C. Kommareddy; SIGCOMM 2002, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2002. A Case For End System Multicast Y. Chu, S. Rao, S. Sehan and H. Zhang; IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, pp. 1456--1471, October 2002.

Slides: Application-Level Multicast

Lecture 10: Video on Demand

Reading List:

Skyscraper Broadcasting: A New Broadcasting Scheme for Metropolitan Video-on-Demand Systems K. Hua and S. Sheu; Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, September 1997 (this paper contains an overview of pyramid broadcast and permutation-based pyramid broadcast). Patching: A Multicast Technique for True Video-on-Demand Services K. Hua, Y. Cai, and S. Sheu; in Proc. ACM Multimedia, September 1998.

Slides: Video on Demand

Lecture 9: Streaming Media Caching

Reading List:

Caching Techniques for Streaming Multimedia over the Internet M. Hofmann, E. Ng, K. Guo, S. Paul, and H. Zhang; Technical Report BL011345-990409-04TM, Bell Laboratories, April 1999.
Silo, Rainbow, and Caching Token: Schemes for Scalable, Fault Tolerant Stream Caching Y. Chae, K. Guo, M. Buddhikot, S. Suri and E. Zegura; Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, 2002.
Multimedia Proxy Caching Mechanism for Quality Adaptive Streaming Applications in the Internet R. Rejaie, H. Yu, M. Handley, and D. Estrin; INFOCOM, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 26--30, 2000.

Slides: Streaming Media Caching

Lecture 8: Error Recovery

Reading List:

A Survey of Packet-loss Recovery Techniques for Streaming Audio C. Perkins, O. Hodson, and V. Hardman; IEEE Network Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1998.
Packet Loss Effects on MPEG Video Sent Over the Public Internet J. M. Boyce and R. D. Gaglianello; ACM Multimedia, pp. 181--190, 1998. [ACM Digital Library]
Error Control Techniques for Interactive Low-bit Rate Video Transmission Over the Internet I. Rhee; SIGCOMM, 1998. [ACM Digital Library]

Slides: Error Recovery

Lecture 7: Playout Buffering

Reading List:

A Multi-Threshold Online Smoothing Technique for Variable Rate Multimedia Streams R. Zimmermann, C. Shahabi, K. Fu, and M. Jahangiri; Multimedia Tools and Applications journal, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 23-49, 2006.
Adaptive playout mechanisms for packetized audio applications in wide-area networks R. Ramjee, J. Kurose, D. Towsley, and H. Schulzrinne; IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Canada, June 1994.
Packet Audio Playout Delay Adjustment: Performance Bounds and Algorithms S. B. Moon, J. Kurose, and D. Towsley; ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems, vol. 6, pp. 17-28, January 1998.

Slides: Playout Buffering

Lecture 6: Project Q&A and Streaming Media Servers

Any questions about the project can discussed in this lecture. There will also be an introduction to streaming media servers.

Reading List:

RMI System: Internet Meets the Future Home Theater Roger Zimmermann, Chris Kyriakakis, Cyrus Shahabi, Christos Papadopoulos, Alexander Sawchuk, and Ulrich Neumann; IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 11, no. 2, April 2004.

Slides: Project and Streaming Media Servers

Lecture 5: Project

The project will be discussed in this lecture.

Additional Resources:

Slides: Project

Lecture 4: Rate Adaptation

Reading List:

The Loss-Delay Based Adjustment Algorithm: A TCP-friendly Adaptation Scheme S. Sisalem, H. Schulzerinne; NOSSDAV 1998.
Measurements of the Congestion Responsiveness of Windows Streaming Media J. Nichols, M. Claypool, R. Kinicki, M. Li; NOSSDAV 2004.

Slides: Rate Adaptation

Lecture 3: RTP Packetization

Reading List:

RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video D. Hoffman, G. Fernando, V. Goyal, M. Vicanlar; Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC2250.
A More Loss-Tolerant RTP Payload Format for MP3 Audio R. Finlayson; Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC3119.
RTP Payload Format for the Speex Codec G. Herlein, J. Valin, A. Heggestad, and A. Moizard; Internet Engineering Task Force, Internet-Draft.
Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format Specifications M. Handley, and C. Perkins; Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC2736.

Additional Resources:

Slides: Packetization

Lecture 2: Network, Transport and Application Layer

Reading List:

Host extension to IP multicast S. Deering; Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC1112.
The PIM architecture for wide-area multicast routing S. Deering, D. L. Estrin, D. Farinacci, V. Jacobson, C.-G. Liu, and L. Wei; IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 4(2) , April 1996, pg 153--162.
RTP: A transport protocol for real-time applications H. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick, and V. Jacobson; Internet Engineering Task Force, Audio-Video Transport Working Group, RFC3550. (only need to skim this)

Additional Resources:

Slides: Network

Lecture 1: Introduction to MPEG Compression

Reading List:

The JPEG still picture compression standard, G. K. Wallace; Communication of the ACM, 34(4):30--44, April 1991.
MPEG: A video compression standard for multimedia applications, D. Le Gall; Communications of the ACM, 34(4):46--58, April 1991.

Slides: Introduction, Compression, Applet: DCT Demo,
Video: Surfing_short.m2t (MPEG-2 HD Transport Stream, 98 MB)