Sixteenth Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN'09)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Monday, January 19th, 2009

SESSION 1: Coding

Chair: Ketan Mayer-Patel (University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, USA)
Time: 8:30 am - 10:00 am

Visibility Of Individual Packet Loss On H.264 Encoded Video Stream ~V A User Study On The Impact Of Packet Loss On Perceived Video Quality,
Mu Mu (Lancaster University), Roswitha Gostner (Lancaster University), Andreas Mauthe (Lancaster University), Francisco Garcia (Agilent Laboratories), Gareth Tyson (Lancaster University)

Optimal FEC Code Concatenation For Unequal Error Protection In Video Streaming Applications,
Lukasz Kondrad (Tampere University of Technology), Imed Bouazizi (Nokia Research Center), Vinod Kumar Malamal Vadakital (Nokia Research Center), Moncef Gabbouj (Tampere University of Technology)

Cross-Layer Optimization Of Video Streaming In Single-Hop Wireless Networks,
Mohamed Hefeeda (Simon Fraser University), Cheng-Hsin Hsu (Simon Fraser University)

Break 10:00 am - 10:30 am

SESSION 2: Latency/Bandwidth Management

Chair: Mohamed Hefeeda (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Time: 10:30 am - 12:30 am

A Two-Tiered On-Line Server-Side Bandwidth Reservation Framework For The Real-Time Delivery Of Multiple Video Streams,
Jorge Londoo (Boston University), Azer Bestavros (Boston University)

Congestion Control For Layered Video Streaming,
Jean-Paul Wagner (EPFL), Pascal Frossard (EPFL)

On The Influence Of Latency Estimation On Dynamic Group Communication Using Overlays,
Knut-Helge Vik (Simula Research Laboratory), Carsten Griwodz (Simula Research Laboratory), Pl Halvorsen (Simula Research Laboratory)

Corelli: A Peer-To-Peer Dynamic Replication Service For Supporting Latency-Dependent Content In Community Networks,
Gareth Tyson (Lancaster University), Andreas Mauthe (Lancaster University), Sebastian Kaune (Darmstadt University of Technology), Mu Mu (Lancaster University), Thomas Plagemann (University of Oslo)

Lunch break 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

SESSION 3: Mobile/Wireless/Sensor Net

Chair: Nabil Sarhan (Wayne State University, USA)
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Multimedia Application Performance On A WiMAX Network,
Emir Halepovic (University of Calgary), Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary), Carey Williamson (University of Calgary)

Bounding Switching Delay In Mobile TV Broadcast Networks,
Mohamed Hefeeda (Simon Fraser University), Cheng-Hsin Hsu (Simon Fraser University)

Exploiting Semantics For Scheduling Data Collection From Sensors On Real-Time To Maximize Event Detection,
Ronen Vaisenberg (University of California, Irvine), Sharad Mehrotra (University of California, Irvine), Deva Ramanan (University of California, Irvine)

Break 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

SESSION 4: Misc.

Chair: Andreas Mauthe (Lancaster University, UK)
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Anatomy Of A Ubiquitous Media Center,
Manuel Serrano (INRIA)

Time-Triggered Static Schedulable Dataflows For Multimedia Systems,
Pau Arumi (Fundacio Barcelona Media / Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Xavier Amatriain (Telefonica Research)

Characterization Of Social Video,
Jeffrey R. Ostrowski (Wayne State University), Nabil J. Sarhan (Wayne State University)