MMSys'11: Special Session on Modern Media Transport

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Special Session on Modern Media Transport

DYNAMIC ADAPTIVE STREAMING OVER HTTP (DASH)
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**** MMSys 2011 ****
ACM Multimedia Systems 2011
February 23-25, 2011
San Jose, California
http://www.mmsys.org

Standards developing organizations (SDOs) such as MPEG have developed various technologies for multimedia transport, e.g., MPEG-2 TS (Transport Stream) and MP4 file format. These technologies have been widely accepted and heavily used by various industries and applications, such as digital broadcasting, audio and video transport over the Internet and streaming to mobile phones, etc. At the same time, many other SDOs such as the IETF, IEEE, and 3GPP have been providing various protocols to deliver multimedia content packetized or packaged by such MPEG transport technologies.

Recently, broadcasting services and mobile services have started converging, and it is expected that this convergence trend will continue with other services. Additionally, new emerging multimedia services are being introduced. These developments in the multimedia arena mean that various content and services will be delivered over different networks, and the users expect to consume these services using those networks, depending on the availability and reach of the network at the time of consumption. To deploy efficient solutions for the transport of modern media in an interoperable and universal fashion, especially given the recent increased demand in the heterogeneous network environment, there is urgency for an international multimedia transport standard.

The main objectives of modern media transport are (but not limited to):

• Efficient delivery of media in an adaptive fashion over various networks with the main emphasis on IP-based networks including terrestrial, satellite, and cable broadcast networks,
• Enable the use of cross-layer designs to improve the Quality of Service/Experience (QoS/QoE),
• Enable building integrated services with multiple components for hybrid delivery over heterogeneous network environments,
• Enable bi-directional low-delay services and applications, such as online gaming and conversational services,
• Enable efficient signaling, delivery and utilization of multiple content protection and rights management tools.
• Enable efficient content forwarding and relaying,
• Enable efficient one-to-many delivery,
• Provision means for resiliency against errors and packet losses.

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)
In recent years, the Internet has become an important channel for delivery of multimedia. The HTTP protocol is widely used on the Internet. Recently, it has also become a primary protocol for the delivery of multimedia content, and a number of proprietary solutions are available. This special session solicits novel contributions and breaking results on all aspects of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) and Modern Media Transport. In addition to the main objectives introduced above, we are also interested in (but not limited to) the following areas:

• Efficient delivery of modern media over HTTP in an adaptive, progressive download/streaming fashion,
• Support for streaming of live multimedia content,
• Efficient and ease of use of existing content distribution infrastructure components such as CDNs, proxies, caches, NATs and firewalls;
• Efficient mapping from existing formats (e.g., MPEG-2 TS, MP4) to delivery formats specifically designed for HTTP streaming.

Important Dates

• Paper submission: October 29th, 2010
• Acceptance notification: December 1st, 2010
• Camera-ready submission: December 15th, 2010

Paper Submission

• Full papers submitted can be up to 12 pages long.
• Short papers can be up to 6 pages long.
• Papers for this special session must be submitted via http://mettowee.cs.wpi.edu/mmt/

Papers must adhere to the standard double-column ACM proceedings style format. Be sure to include space for the conference permission block in the lower left-hand corner of the first page. If using LaTeX, you may use the "tighter alternate style" option.
For more details see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates


TPC members

• Ali C. Begen, Cisco, Canada
• Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria
• Per Fröjdh, Ericsson Research, Sweden
• Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland
• Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway
• Pål Halvorsen, University of Oslo, Canada
• Behnoosh Hariri, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Yuwen He, Dolby, USA
• Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
• Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Jörn Ostermann, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
• Thomas Schierl, Fraunhofer/HHI, Germany
• Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research GmbH, Germany
• Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
• Ye-Kui Wang, Huawei, USA
• Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore

References
[1] ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), “Call for Proposals on MPEG Media Transport (MMT)”, N11539, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010. Available at http://multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2010/08/mpeg-media-transport.html
[2] ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), “Requirements on MPEG Media Transport (MMT)”, N11540, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010. Available at http://multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2010/08/mpeg-media-transport.html
[3] ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), “MPEG Media Transport (MMT) Context and Objective”, N11541, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010. Available at http://multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2010/08/mpeg-media-transport.html
[4] ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG), “Use Cases for MPEG Media Transport (MMT)”, N11542, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010. Available at http://multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2010/08/mpeg-media-transport.html
[5] “HTTP Streaming of MPEG Media”, http://multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2010/05/http-streaming-of-mpeg-media.html

Special Session Organizer
Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Deptartment of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communications Group; Tel: +43 463 2700 3621; Fax: +43 463 2700 99 3621; E-mail: christian.timmerer(at)itec.uni-klu.ac.at; Web: http://research.timmerer.com; Address: Universitätsstraße 65-67, 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria

Program for ACM Workshop on Advanced Video Streaming Techniques for Peer-to-Peer Networks and Social Networking

Workshop website: http://www.p2pstreaming.eu/
Workshop date/location: 29th October 2010, Florence, Italy (co-located with ACMMM'10)
ACM Multimedia: http://www.acmmm10.org/

Workshop presentations: No central server will be used for oral presentations at the Conference Workshops. Authors can either use their own laptops or the PC available in each Workshop room (Windows based machine). Authors are invited to check this program page to see the time slots allocated for oral presentations. For poster and demo sessions at the Workshops, boards are available that can hold a poster up to 100 cm width x 250 cm length (3.28 ft x 8.2 ft). 

Finally, we also invite you to refer to the Conference web page (http://www.acmmm10.org/) for any further information about venue, travel, weather, accommodations, restaurants, and so on.

Final Program:

09:00-09:15: Welcome Address by the Chairs
09:15-10:00: Keynote Address
Session Chair: Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
Audio/visual content and metadata delivered over the open Internet using P2P-Next: some experiences from a broadcaster's perspective by George Wright, Head of Prototyping, BBC Research and Development

10:00-10:30: Short presentation of posters and demos

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:00: Session 1 - Networking and Streaming
Session Chair: Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University, Austria)

• P2P Group Communication with Layer-Aware FEC by Yago Sánchez; Cornelius Hellge; Thomas Schierl; Thomas Wiegand (Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications - Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany)
• P2P streaming with LT codes: a prototype experimentation by Andrea Magnetto; Rossano Gaeta; Marco Grangetto; Matteo Sereno (Universita' di Torino, Italy)
• Peer-to-Peer streaming based on network coding improves packet jitter by Riccardo Bernardini; Roberto Cesco Fabbro; Roberto Rinaldo (University of Udine, Italy)

12:00-13:00: Session 2 - Application
Session Chair: Pascal Frossard (EPFL, Switzerland)

• A Novel Cache Optimization Algorithm and Protocol for Video Streaming in Pure Peer-to-Peer Networks by Carlo Giulietti; Dan Schonfeld; Rashid Ansari (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
• Access Control to BitTorrent swarms using Closed Swarms by Keith Mitchell (Lancaster University, United Kingdom); Njaal Borch (Norut IT, Norway); Ingar Arntzen (Norut IT, Norway); Dusan Gabrijelcic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
• Advanced Prefetching and Upload Strategies for P2P Video-on-Demand by Osama Abboud; Konstantin Pussep; Markus Müller; Aleksandra Kovacevic; Ralf Steinmetz (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany)

13:00-14:30: Lunch

14:30-15:30: Session 3 - Design
Session Chair: Keith Mitchell (University of Lancaster, UK)

• A Hybrid Approach to Modeling End-to-End Delay in P2P Networks by Philipp Berndt; Dominic Battré; Odej Kao (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
• Design and Implementation of a Generic Library for P2P Streaming by Luca Abeni; Csaba Kiraly; Alessandro Russo; Marco Biazzini; Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento, Italy)
• Design and Evaluation of an Optimized Overlay Topology for a Single Operator Video Streaming Service by Stefano Giordano (University of Pisa, Italy); Rosario G. Garroppo (University of Pisa, Italy); Stella Spagna (University of Pisa, Italy); Saverio Niccolini (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany); Jan Seedorf (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany)

15:30-16:00: Coffee break

16:00-18:00: Session 4 - Posters and Demos
Session Chair: Gabriella Olmo (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Posters:

• An Analytical Approach to Model Adaptive Video Streaming and Delivery by Razib Iqbal; Shervin Shirmohammadi (University of Ottawa, Canada)
• Consistent Image Decoding from Multiple Lossy Versions by Marco Dalai; Serena Malavasi; Riccardo Leonardi (University of Brescia, Italy)
• Improving Quality-of-Experience for Multiple Description Video Transmission in Peer-To-Peer Networks by Simone Milani; Giancarlo Calvagno (University of Padova, Italy)
• Knapsack Problem-based Piece-Picking Algorithms for Layered Content in Peer-to-Peer Networks by Michael Eberhard (Klagenfurt University, Austria); Tibor Szkaliczki (Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary); Hermann Hellwagner (Klagenfurt University, Austria); Laszlo Szobonya (Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary); Christian Timmerer (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
• MixNStream: Multi-Source Video Distribution with Stream Mixers by Philip Chun Ho Yuen; Gary Chan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)
• Three Highly Available Data Streaming Techniques and Their Tradeoffs by Sumita Barahmand; Shahram Ghandeharizadeh; Anurag Ojha; Jason Yap (USC, USA)

Demos: (tentative)

Closed Swarms by Njaal Borch (Norut IT, Norway)

Abstract: In the search for commercial opportunities within online media distribution, Closed Swarms has been designed to provide content providers with a flexible, distributed authentication mechanism for P2P media distribution. Closed Swarms allow the provider control of bandwidth costs, yet it can enable new business models which might be better suited for the Internet Age, such as freemium solutions or added benefits for paying customers. We will demonstrate how Closed Swarms can be used to provide a free, non-guaranteed community service while logged-in users are provided with a full VOD experience.

Visualizing and Reducing Wait Delay in Periodic Butterfly Communication by Philipp Berndt (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

Abstract: Butterfly graphs are probably best known from their use in the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm. A different use is in P2P VoIP Conferencing, where each node combines the audio streams it receives, before forwarding the data to the next stage. Dead time between the reception and the relaying of audio data adds up along the data paths to an overall latency that impairs the communication experience. This wait delay heavily depends on the send phase offsets between the nodes. Our demonstration shows how this problem can be interactively visualized and studied, what relationships exist and which methods can be employed to minimize overall wait delay.

Developing P2P Streaming Applications with GRAPES by Luca Abeni (University of Trento, Italy)

Abstract: In this demonstration, it will be shown how to use the GRAPES library to build a simple P2P application, either single-threaded or multi-threaded (the demo application will show how the GRAPES API allows to change the structure of the application from single-threaded to multi-threaded by simply modifying the main application loop). It will also be shown how to easily change the implementation of a GRAPES module (the peer sampler), and the impact of such a change on some performance metrics will be evaluated.

NextShareTV demo by P2P-Next (http://www.p2p-next.eu)

Abstract: The NextShareTV is a Set-top-box confirming to the NextShare platform, developed as part of the P2P-Next project. As a NextShare device, it collaborates with NextSharePC implementations as well, bridging the TV set and the PC in a single content swarm.

18:00-18:30: Best Paper Aware + Closing

SIGMM Records, Vol 2, No 3, September 2010 is now available

SIGMM Records

Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2010 (ISSN 1947-4598)

The September 2010 issue of the ACM SIG Multimedia Records is now available!
We have to start this issue of the Records by informing you about the passing of Prof. Nicolas Georganas.
we can also pass on good news. You can read about the receivers about the SIGMM's two prestigious awards, the SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications and the SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications.
Read the SIGMM Records

Table of Contents (with links to sigmm.org)

1. Editorial
2. ACM SIGMM is Sad to Announce the Loss of Nicolas Georganas, distinguished professor and researcher
3. A Personal Appreciation of Professor Nicolas Georganas
4. SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
5. SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
6. Top 10 ACM SIGMM Downloads
7. PhD thesis abstracts
   
   • Oliver Lampl
   • Parag S. Mogre
8. Event Reports
   
   • MIR 2010
   • TOMCCAP, Volume 6, Issue 3
   • MMSJ, Volume 16, Issue 4-5
9. Calls for Papers
   
   • Events held in cooperation with SIGMM
   • Other multimedia-related Events
10. Freely available source code, traces and test content
    
    • vvvv: a multipurpose toolkit
11. Impressum