IEEE JSAC Special Issue: Video Distribution over Future Internet

Special issue on Video Distribution over Future Internet 

Extended Submission Deadline: May 1529, 2015

http://www.comsoc.org/jsac

The current Internet is under tremendous pressure due to the exponential growth in bandwidth demand, fueled by the transfer of video consumption to online distribution, IPTV, streaming services such as Netflix, and from phone networks to videoconferencing and Skype-like video communications. The Internet has also democratized the creation, distribution and sharing of user-generated video contents through services such as YouTube, Vimeo or Hulu. The situation is further aggravated by the emerging trends of adopting higher definition video streams, requesting more and more bandwidth. Indeed, the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) projects that video consumption will amount to 90% of the global consumer traffic by 2017. Another shift predicted by Cisco VNI is that most data communications will be wireless by 2018.

To cope with the bandwidth growth, the shift to wireless, and to solve other related issues (e.g., naming, security, etc) with the current Internet, new architectures for the future Internet have been proposed and prototyped. Examples include Content-Centric Networks (CCN) or Named Data Networking (NDN), or some content-based extensions to Software-Defined Networking (SDN), among others. None of these emerging architectures deals specifically with video distribution, as they need to support a wider range of services, but all would have to support videos in an efficient manner. Therefore, the study of video distribution over the future Internet is of primary importance: how well does future Internet architecture facilitate video delivery? What kind of video distribution mechanisms need to be created to run on the future Internet? How will video be supported in the wireless portion of the future Internet? Can the current video distribution mechanisms (such as end-to-end dynamic rate adaptation schemes) be used or even enhanced for the future Internet? What are subjective/objective metrics for performance measurement? How to provide real-time guarantees for live and interactive video streams?

While the topic is quite wide, we will narrow the focus of this special issue on the fundamental problems of video distribution and delivery in the future Internet. We invite submissions of high-quality original technical and survey papers, which have not been published previously, on video distribution in the future Internet, including the following non-exhaustive list of topics. Please note that all topics must be understood in the context of the future Internet as outlined above.

• Network-assisted video distribution, network support for multimedia, specifically supporting wireless environments
• New information-centric and software-defined architectures to support wired and wireless video streaming
• Resource allocation for wired and wireless video distribution
• Media streaming, distribution, and storage support in the future Internet
• In-network caching/storage, named data retrieval, publish/subscribe for video distribution in wired and wireless networks
• Next generation Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
• Adaptive streaming and rate adaptation for video streaming in the future Internet for wired and wireless networks
• Peer-to-peer aspects of video multimedia distribution, including scaling and capacity
• QoS/QoE measurement and support for video distribution in the future Internet
• User-generated content and social networks for multi-media
• Video compression techniques explicitly supporting the future Internet
• Big-Data mechanisms (say referral engines or content placement algorithms) for video content over future Internet
• Social-aware video content distribution over future Internet
• Integration of video distribution and multimedia computing over future Internet
• Testbeds and measurements of video distribution over future Internet
• Cost and economic models for video distribution over future Internet
• Theoretical foundations for video distribution over future Internet, e.g., network coding, information theory, machine learning, etc

Special Issue Editors

• Prof. Cedric Westphal, Huawei Innovations & UCSC, USA 
• Prof. Tommaso Melodia, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA 
• Prof. Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
• Prof. Wenwu Zhu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Important Dates

• Paper Submission due: 05/29/2015
• First review complete: 09/15/2015
• Acceptance Notification: 11/15/2015
• Camera-ready version: 12/15/2015
• Publication date: Second Quarter 2016 

Manuscript submissions and reviewing process: All submissions must be original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. For submission format, please follow IEEE JSAC guidelines (http://www.comsoc.org/jsac/paper-submission-guidelines). Each paper will go through a two-round rigorous reviewing process by at least three leading experts in related areas. Papers should be submitted through EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=19291).

ICME 2015: Over-the-Top Content Delivery: State of the Art and Challenges Ahead

Supported by http://www.dash-player.com/

Tutorial at ICME 2015

June 29 - July 3, 2015

Torino, Italy

http://www.icme2015.ieee-icme.org/

Abstract: Over-the-top content delivery is becoming increasingly attractive for both live and on-demand content thanks to the popularity of platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Netflix, Hulu, Maxdome, etc. In this tutorial, we present state of the art and challenges ahead in over-the-top content delivery. In particular, the goal of this tutorial is to provide an overview of adaptive media delivery, specifically in the context of HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) including the recently ratified MPEG-DASH standard. The main focus of the tutorial will be on the common problems in HAS deployments such as client design, QoE optimization, multi-screen and hybrid delivery scenarios, and synchronization issues. For each problem, we will examine proposed solutions along with their pros and cons. In the last part of the tutorial, we will look into the open issues and review the work-in-progress and future research directions.

The tutorial will be held on June 29, 2015 in the afternoon.

Slides will be provided on time and a preliminary version (from previous presentations) can be found here and here.

Biography of Presenters

Christian Timmerer received his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) in January 2003 and his Ph.D. (Dr.techn.) in June 2006 (for research on the adaptation of scalable multimedia content in streaming and constraint environments) both from the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC) within the Multimedia Communication Group. His research interests include immersive multimedia communication, streaming, adaptation, Quality of Experience, and Sensory Experience.

He has published more than 150 papers in these areas and he has organized a number of special sessions and issues in this domain, e.g., “Special Session on MMT/DASH” (MMsys 2011, followed by a special issue in Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2012), “Special Issue on Adaptive Media Streaming” (IEEE JSAC, published 2014). Furthermore, he was the general chair of WIAMIS 2008, QoMEX 2013, and QCMan 2014; will be general chair of ACM Multimedia Systems 2016. He is an editorial board member of IEEE Computer, associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, area editor for the Elsevier journal on Signal Processing: Image Communication and a key member of the Interest Groups (IG) on Image and Video Coding as well as Quality of Experience and Director of the Review Board of the IEEE Multimedia Communication Technical Committee. Finally, he writes a regular column for ACM SIGMM Records where he serves as an editor and he is a member of the ACM SIGMM Open Source Software Committee. Dr. Timmerer participated in the work of ISO/MPEG for more then 10 years, notably as the head of the Austrian delegation, coordinator of several core experiments, co-chair of several ad- hoc groups, and as an editor for various standards, notably the MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework and the MPEG Extensible Middleware (MXM which became MPEG-M). His current contributions are in the area of MPEG-V (Media Context and Control) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), for which he also serves as an editor. He received various ISO/IEC certificates of appreciation.

Ali C. Begen is with the Video and Content Platforms Research and Advanced Development Group at Cisco. His interests include networked entertainment, Internet multimedia, transport protocols and content delivery. Ali is currently working on architectures and protocols for next-generation video transport and distribution over IP networks, and he is an active contributor in the IETF and MPEG in these areas. Ali holds a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech. He received the Best Student-paper Award at IEEE ICIP 2003, the Most-cited Paper Award from Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communication in 2008, and the Best-paper Award at Packet Video Workshop 2012. Ali has been an editor for the Consumer Communications and Networking series in the IEEE Communications Magazine since 2011 and an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia since 2013. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a senior member of the ACM. Further information on Ali’s projects, publications and presentations can be found at http://ali.begen.net.

Multimedia Streaming in Information-Centric Networks (MuSIC)

Call for Papers

2015 IEEE ICME Workshop

Multimedia Streaming in Information-Centric Networks (MuSIC)

Friday, July 3, 2015, Torino, Italy

http://music2015.itec.aau.at/

Motivation and Goals

According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index and to Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena Reports, multimedia, in particular video for real-time entertainment, are the predominant sources of traffic on the current Internet and continue to grow. However, the Internet protocols and mechanisms have not at all been designed for the challenging real-time communication media like video and voice streaming and conferencing, such that îthe Internet only just works,î as Mark Handley put it. Intense research on Quality of Service (QoS) schemes and frameworks has been conducted over the past decades, not resulting in practical and widely accepted mechanisms in the IP networking world. Currently, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are the primary means to deliver massive amounts of real-time content, e.g., video streams, to clients in a satisfying manner.

Countering these problems and challenges, many Future Internet initiatives and projects have been and are being undertaken around the globe. Among them, Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is a promising approach, bringing content and efficient content distribution into focus. Several basic ICN concepts are quite similar to application-layer protocols in the IP world, e.g., a publish-subscribe approach in PSIRP/PURSUIT, pull-based data transport in CCN/NDN (interest/data packets) and in Adaptive HTTP Streaming approaches (request/response behavior).

Interestingly, though, the two communities, on Multimedia Systems/Communications and on Information-Centric Networking, have barely interacted. Multimedia communications researchers still mostly think and operate in the context of IP networks, while ICN researchers mainly discuss key networking aspects, not focusing on the requirements, challenges and opportunities of real-time multimedia data delivery/streaming (even though there are notable exceptions). Yet, recent intense discussions on the IRTF mailing list on video delivery and QoS/QoE and several publications (among them, an Internet Draft) indicate increased interest of ICN experts in multimedia communication.
The most important goal of this workshop is therefore to provide a forum that brings those two communities together, to spawn vivid discussions and intense exchange and learnings at the intersection of the two areas, and to help establish common terminology, work, and projects. The committees of the workshop are composed of leading members of both communities, in an attempt to solicit broad interest and good submissions to the workshop.

The workshop will emphasize video-on-demand (VoD) and voice/video conferencing (live) applications on ICNs, but other distributed multimedia applications are welcome, such as gaming. All aspects of media streaming in ICN will be addressed, including: basic principles and insights; protocols, mechanisms and policies (strategies) in ICN nodes; routing; measures and metrics for real-time behavior, QoS and QoE; evaluation methodology; prototype implementations, testbeds, and demos; and comparisons with IP-based systems. The workshop is open to discuss media streaming in all ICN approaches; comparisons of different ICN architectures are encouraged. Demos are welcome.

Topics of Interest (including, but not limited to)

• Video-on-demand applications, prototypes, and demos over ICN
• Voice/video conferencing applications, prototypes, and demos over ICN
• Novel multimedia applications, prototypes, demos over ICN
• Error and loss control and mitigation
• Congestion detection and control
• Naming and routing of media streams
• Forwarding, aggregation, replication strategies (interests and content)
• Caching strategies
• Caching effects (probably unexpected and/or undesired)
• DRM and its impact on or interplay with caching
• Content adaptation in ICN
• Media stream adaptation, bandwidth estimation,... on clients
• Use of scalable media content
• Fairness issues and metrics in ICN
• Security and privacy issues for MM streaming over ICN
• QoS and QoE mechanisms and metrics: impact on and interplay with ICN
• Evaluation methodologies, in particular ICN simulation and experimental testbeds
• Deployment and scalability issues

Submissions to the Workshop

• Paper length: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers, up to 6 pages long, by March 30, 2015.
• Paper format: For author guidelines†and†paper templates please see: http://www.icme2015.ieee-icme.org/authorguide.php.
• Paper submission: All submissions are to be made via CMT web site at:†https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ICMEW2015. Please select "Workshop on Multimedia Streaming in Information-Centric Networks (MuSIC)".
• Review process: Each submission will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the TPC.
• Accepted papers: Papers accepted for the workshop must be presented by one of the authors. Papers will be published in the Proceedings of ICME Workshops and also on-line in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

Important Dates

• Paper submission:   March 30, 2015
• Paper acceptance:   April 30, 2015
• Camera-ready paper: May 15, 2015
• Workshop:           July 3, 2015

Committees

Organizers and Technical Program Committee Chairs
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- Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
- George C. Polyzos, AUEB, Greece

Steering Committee
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- Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC, USA
- George Pavlou, University College London, UK
- Cedric Westphal, Huawei, USA
- Chang Wen Chen, SUNY at Buffalo, USA

Technical Program Committee
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- Alexander Afanasyev, UCLA, USA
- Ali Begen, Cisco, Canada
- Laszlo Bˆszˆrmenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria
- Jeff Burke, UCLA, USA
- Giovanna Carofiglio, Cisco Systems, France
- Wei Koong Chai, University College London, UK
- Wolfgang Effelsberg, Univ. Mannheim & TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland
- Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research Lab & Univ.of Oslo, Norway
- Mohamed Hefeeda, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Dirk Kutscher, NEC Labs Europe, Germany
- Giannis Marias, AUEB, Greece
- Luca Muscariello, Orange Labs, France
- Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC, USA
- Bˆrje Ohlman, Ericsson Research, Sweden
- Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore
- Dave Oran, Cisco, USA
- Jˆrg Ott, Aalto University, Finland
- Christos Papadopoulos, Colorado State University, USA
- Benjamin Rainer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
- Damien Saucez, INRIA, France
- Gwendal Simon, Telecom Bretagne, France
- Vasilios Siris, AUEB, Greece
- Ignacio Solis, PARC, USA
- Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
- Dirk Trossen, InterDigital, UK
- Laura Toni, EPFL, Switzerland
- Christian Tschudin, Universit‰t Basel, Switzerland
- George Xylomenos, AUEB, Greece
- Yonggang Wen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore