Colloquium Details
Adaptive Internet Multimedia Streaming
| Author: | Reza Rejaie University of Oregon |
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| Date: | May 02, 2002 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
Abstract
The design of efficient unicast Internet video streaming applications requires proper integration of encoding techniques with transport mechanisms. Because of the mutual dependency between the encoding technique and the transport mechanism, design of such applications has proven to be a challenging problem.
In this talk, we present our prototyped client-server architecture which allows the joint design of a transport-aware video encoder with an encoding-aware transport. We argue that layered encoding provides maximum flexibility for efficient transport of video streams over the Internet. We present key components of the transport mechanism and discuss their design issues. Finally, we describe how encoding-specific information is utilized by transport mechanisms for efficient delivery of layered video despite variations in channel behavior.
Biography
Reza Rejaie was a Senior Technical staff member at AT&T Labs - Research in Menlo Park from 1999 to 2002. Prior to that, he was a research assistant at Information Sciences Institute (ISI) for three years. Reza received his Ph.D. (1999) and M.S. (1996) from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, both in Computer Science. He received his B.S. (1991) in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. His research interests includes Internet multimedia streaming, multimedia proxy caching and content distribution, traffic monitoring and measurement, peer-to-peer networks, congestion control, and Internet path characterization.
Reza has served on Technical Program Committee of several conferences and workshops including ACM Multimedia, IEEE Multimedia and NOSSDAV. Reza has also refereed for many conferences and journals such as SIGCOMM, INFOCOM, IEEE JSAC, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking and IEEE Tran. on Multimedia.