Syllabus

Homework Assignments

• CS 290F HW01: Publication Venues (Due Jan 06)
• CS 290F HW02: Paper Reviewing and Analysis (Due Jan 11)
• CS 290F HW03: Preliminary Project Proposal (Due Jan 13)
• CS 290F HW-x: Paper Analyses and/or Presentation

Project Details and Deliverables

• Project Ideas
• NSF Wireless Preliminary Report
• Final Group Proposals
• Prelim Reports
• Final Reports

Class Participants

Grade Summary (includes all but Final Project)

• HW01 assignments and grades
• HW02 assignments and grades
• Tech Topics #01
• Tech Topics #02
• Tech Topics #03
• Tech Topics #04
• Tech Topics #05
• Tech Topics #06
• Tech Topics #07

Completed Lectures

• Jan 04: Course Overview
  • Review Syllabus
  • Class Overview
  • Project Overview
  • Conference Procedures
  • Assignment: CS 290F HW01: Publication Venues (Due Jan 06)
  • Handout: a CS 290F Class Social Network
    • Handout: CS 290F Class Social Network (as of Jan 04)
  • Handout: CS 290F Diagnostic

• Jan 06: Paper Analysis
  • Paper Reviewing
  • Paper Analysis Guidelines
  • Assignment: CS 290F HW02: Paper Reviewing and Analysis (Due Jan 11)
  • Assignment: CS290F HW03: Preliminary Project Proposals (Due Jan 13)
  • Handout: Jan 06 Lecture Notes
    • Link: Writing Workshop Notes

• Jan 11: Spectrums
  • Spectrums of multimedia networking requirements
  • Discussion of preliminary project plans
  • Handout: Jan 11 Lecture Notes

• Jan 13: Evaluation Methods
  • Discussion of parameters, factors, and metrics
  • Reading: K. Almeroth, A. Dan, D. Sitaram and W. Tetzlaff, "Long Term Resource Allocation in Video Delivery Systems", IEEE Infocom , Kobe, JAPAN, April 1997.
    • Paper Analysis
  • Handout: Jan 13 Lecture Notes

• Jan 20: Tech Topic #01: Content Delivery Networks
  • F. Leighton and D. Lewin, "Global Hosting System," U.S. Patent No, 6,108,703, August 22, 2000.

  • S. Saroiu, et al., "An Analysis of Internet Content Delivery Systems," ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review Special Issue on Network Behavior, vol. 36, Winter 2002.

  • Z. Al Qudah, et al., "Anycast-Aware Transport for Content Delivery Networks," World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Madrid Spain, April 2009.

  • H. Schulze and K. Mochalski, "Ipoque Internet Study 2008/2009," Ipoque, 2009. [OPTIONAL]

  • Handout: Jan 20 Lecture Notes by Kevin
  • Handout: Jan 20 Lecture Notes by Bryce

• Jan 25: Tech Topic #02: Multmedia Encoding Techniques
  • D. Le Gall, "MPEG: A Video Compression Standard for Multimedia Applications," Communications of the ACM, vol. 34, num. 4, April 1991.

  • H. Schwarz, D. Marpe, and T. Wiegand, "Overview of the Scalable Video Coding Extension of the H.264/AVC Standard," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, num. 9, September 2007.

  • T. Kim and M. Ammar, "A Comparison of Heterogeneous Video Multicast Schemes: Layered Encoding or Stream Replication," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 7, num. 6, December 2005. [OPTIONAL]

  • Handout: Jan 25 Lecture Notes by Kevin

• Jan 27: Tech Topic #03: Advanced Routing
  • K. Almeroth, "The Evolution of Multicast: From the MBone to Inter-Domain Multicast to Internet2 Deployment," IEEE Network Special Issue on Multicasting, January/February 2000.

  • S. Banerjee and B. Bhattacharjee, "A Comparative Study of Application Layer Multicast Protocols," unpublished--never accepted for publication.

  • P. Rajvaidya and K. Almeroth, "A Study of Multicast Routing Instabilities", IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 8, num. 5, pp. 42-49, September/October 2004. [OPTIONAL]

  • Handout: Jan 27 Lecture Notes by Kevin

• Feb 01: Tech Topic #04: Multicast Applications
  • K. Almeroth and M. Ammar, "An Alternative Paradigm for Scalable On-Demand Applications: Evaluating and Deploying the Interactive Multimedia Jukebox," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Special Issue on Web Technologies, vol. 11, num. 4, pp 658-672, July/August 1999.

  • J. Byers, M. Luby, M. Mitzenmacher, and A. Rege, "A Digital Fountain Approach to Reliable Distribution of Bulk Data," ACM SIGCOMM, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 1998.
  • J. Byers, M. Luby, M. Mitzenmacher, ""Accessing Multiple Mirror Sites in Parallel: Using Tornado Codes to Speed Up Downloads", IEEE Infocom , New York, NY, March 1999. [OPTIONAL]

  • B. Quinn and K. Almeroth, "IP Multicast Applications: Challenges and Solutions", Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC) 3170, September 2001. [INFORMATIONAL ONLY--DO NOT ANALYZE]

  • Handout: Feb 01 Lecture Notes by Kevin

• Feb 03: Project Group Meetings

• Feb 08: Tech Topic #05: Network Support for Distributed Gaming
  • J. Smed, T. Kaukoranta, and H. Hakonen, "Aspects of Networking in Multiplayer Computer Games," The Electronic Library, vol. 20, num. 2, 2002.

  • W.C. Feng, F. Chang, W.C. Feng, and J. Walpole, "A Traffic Characterization of Popular On-Line Games," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 13, num. 3, June 2005.

  • M. Claypool and K. Claypool, "Latency Can Kill: Precision and Deadline in Online Games," ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, Phoenix, AZ, February 2010. [OPTIONAL]

  • Handout: Feb 8 Lecture Notes by Kevin
  • Handout: Feb 8 Lecture Notes by Lara

• Feb 10: Tech Topic #06: Multimedia over Wireless Networks
  • Y. Sun, I. Sheriff, E. Belding-Royer and K. Almeroth, "An Experimental Study of Multimedia Traffic Performance in Mesh Networks", MobiSys International Workshop on Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modeling (WitMeMo), Seattle, Washington, June 2005.

  • S. Khan, et al., "Application-Driven Cross-Layer Optimization for Video Stream Over Wireless Networks," IEEE Communications, vol. 44, no. 1, January 2006.

  • S. Mao, et at., "Video Transport Over Ad Hoc Networks: Multistream Coding with Multipath Transport," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 21, no. 10, December 2003.

  • E. Setton, et al., "Cross-Layer Design of Ad Hoc Networks for Real-Time Video Streaming," IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 12, no. 4, August 2005. [INFORMATIONAL ONLY--DO NOT ANALYZE]

  • Handout: Feb 10 Lecture Notes by Kevin
  • Handout: Feb 10 Lecture Notes by David

• Feb 15: NO CLASS (Holiday)
• Feb 17: NO CLASS (Travel)

• Feb 22: Tech Topic #07: Multimedia for Mobile Devices
  • T. Pering, Y. Agarwal, R. Gupta, and R. Want, "CoolSpots: Reducing the Power Consumption of Wireless Mobile Devices with Multiple Radio Interfaces," ACM Mobisys, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006.

  • S. Mohapatra, R. Cornea, N. Dutt, A. Nicolau, and N. Venkatasubramanian, "Integrated Power Management for Video Streaming to Mobile Handheld Devices," ACM Multimedia, Berkeley, California, November 2003.

  • H. Shojania and B. Li, "Random Network Coding on the iPhone: Fact or Fiction?," ACM NOSSDAV, Williamsburg, Virginia, June 2009.

  • Handout: Feb 22 Lecture Notes by Kevin

• Feb 24: Lecture 13: Preliminary Project Presentations
  • 9:00 Troy+Peter
  • 9:13 Lara
  • 9:26 Neer+Damon+Julian
  • 9:39 Daniel
  • 9:52 Zak+Chris
  • 10:05 David
  • 10:18 Derek
  • 10:31 Bryce
  • 10:44 Hans+Per+Fahad

• Mar 01: NO CLASS (Take Home Exam Work)
• Mar 03: Exam Grading/Review

• Mar 08: Project Presentations #1
  • 9:05am- 9:31am: Daniel
  • 9:31am- 9:57am: Derek
  • 9:57am-10:23am: Zak+Chris
  • 10:23am-10:49am: Peter+Troy
  
  
• Mar 10: Project Presentations #2
  • 9:00am- 9:22am: David
  • 9:22am- 9:44am: Hans+Per+Fahad
  • 9:44am-10:06am: Julian+Damon+Neer
  • 10:06am-10:28am: Lara
  • 10:28am-10:50am: Bryce