... to start 2011 with some interesting articles, I'd like to share with you two articles from IEEE Internet Computing entitled "Watching Video over the Web" written by Ali Begen, Tankut Akgul, and Mark Baugher.
Part I: Streaming Protocols
Abstract: A U.S. consumer watches TV for about five hours a day on average. While the majority of viewed content is still the broadcast TV programming, the share of the time‐shifted content has been ever increasing. One third of the U.S. consumers currently use a digital video recorder (DVR)‐like device for time‐shifting, however, the trends are showing that more and more consumers are going to the Web to watch their favorite shows and movies on a computer or mobile device. Increasingly, the Web is coming to the digital TV, which incorporates movie downloads and streaming using Web protocols. In this first part of a two‐part article, the authors describe both conventional and emerging streaming solutions using Web and non‐Web protocols and provide a detailed comparison.
Citation: Ali Begen, Tankut Akgul, Mark Baugher, "Watching Video over the Web, Part I: Streaming Protocols," IEEE Internet Computing, 22 Dec. 2010. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2010.155
Part II: Applications, Standardization and Open Issues
Abstract: In this second part of a two-part article, the authors look into applications for streaming including end-to-end mobile and in-home streaming, contrasting adaptive approaches to other video delivery paradigms, discuss the current standardization efforts and highlight the areas that still require further research and investigation.
Citation: Ali Begen, Tankut Akgul, Mark Baugher, "Watching Video over the Web, Part II: Applications, Standardization and Open Issues," IEEE Internet Computing, 22 Dec. 2010. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2010.156
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Thursday, March 25, 2010
CfP: The Third International Symposium on Multimedia – Applications and Processing, MMAP 2010
www.mmap.imcsit.org
Wisla, Poland, October 18-20, 2010
* CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS
Multimedia information has become ubiquitous on the web, creating new challenges for indexing, access, search and retrieval. Recent advances in pervasive computers, networks, telecommunications, and information technology, along with the proliferation of multimedia mobile devices - such as laptops, iPods, personal digital assistants (PDA), and cellular telephones - have stimulated the development of intelligent pervasive multimedia applications. These key technologies are creating a multimedia revolution that will have significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, and governmental domains. Yet many challenges remain, especially when it comes to efficiently indexing, mining, querying, searching, and retrieving multimedia data. The Multimedia - Processing and Applications 2010 (MMAP 2010) Symposium addresses several themes related to theory and practice within multimedia domain. The enormous interest in multimedia from many activity areas (medicine, entertainment, education) led researchers and industry to make a continuous effort to create new, innovative multimedia algorithms and application. As a result the conference goal is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners in order to communicate their newest and original contributions on topics that have been identified (see below). We are also interested in looking at service architectures, protocols, and standards for multimedia communications - including middleware - along with the related security issues, such as secure multimedia information sharing. Finally, we encourage submissions describing work on novel applications that exploit the unique set of advantages offered by multimedia computing techniques, including home-networked entertainment and games. However, innovative contributions that don't exactly fit into these areas will also be considered because they might be of benefit to conference attendees.
* CALL FOR PAPERS
MMAP 2010 is a major forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. The MMAP 2010 Symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of multimedia domain ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications. MMAP 2010 invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Papers acceptance and publication will be judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions.
* TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest are related to Multimedia Processing and Applications including, but are not limited to the following areas:
* PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
31.05.2010 – Submission deadline
12.07.2010 – Notification of acceptance
23.08.2010 – Camera-ready version of the accepted papers
18.10-20.10.2010 – Symposium
* GENERAL MMAP 2010 CHAIR
Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
* Steering Committee
Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA
Thomas M. Deserno, Aachen University, Germany
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA
* Organizing Committee
Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Liana Stanescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Marius Brezovan, University of Craiova, Romania
* Publicity Chairs
Amelia Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
* Program Committee
José Luis Sevillano Ramos, University of Sevilla, Spain
Michael Lang, National University of Ireland, Ireland
David Bustard, University of Ulster, UK
Janis Grundspenkis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Rynson Lau, Shanghai University, P.R. China
Gregory Wojtkowski, Boise State University, USA
Che-Chern Lin, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Bogdan Logofatu, University of Bucuresti, Romania
Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Wita Wojtkowski, Boise State University, USA
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Qi Chun, Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R.China
Enn Õunapuu, University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Stefan Trzcielinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Wilfried Philips, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Vladimir Cretu, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federation
Kazuo Ohzeki, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Valery Korzhik, State University of Telecommunications, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Boris Shishkov, IICREST / Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA
Laszlo Böszörmenyi , Klagenfurt University, Austria
Vladimir Fomichov, State University Moscow, Russian Federation
Miguel Angel Vega-Rodríguez, University of Extremadura, Spain
Dan Popescu, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia.
Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, Italy
Stefan Trausan-Matu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
Reggie Kwan, Caritas Francis Hsu College, Hong Kong
Rami Finkler, Afeka College of Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel
Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France
Christopher Barry, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Romulus Grigoras, IRIT - University of Toulouse, France
Mihai Mocanu, University of Craiova, Romania
Andrea Molinari, University of Trento, Italy
Franz Wotawa, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria
Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece
Jacek Zurada, University of Louisville, USA
Ryszard Choras, Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, P.R. China
Rajkumar Kannan, Bishop Heber College, India
Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Yoshimi Teshigawara, Soka University, Japan
Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
George Thiruvathukal, Loyola University, USA
Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Canada
Wisla, Poland, October 18-20, 2010
* CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND GOALS
Multimedia information has become ubiquitous on the web, creating new challenges for indexing, access, search and retrieval. Recent advances in pervasive computers, networks, telecommunications, and information technology, along with the proliferation of multimedia mobile devices - such as laptops, iPods, personal digital assistants (PDA), and cellular telephones - have stimulated the development of intelligent pervasive multimedia applications. These key technologies are creating a multimedia revolution that will have significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, and governmental domains. Yet many challenges remain, especially when it comes to efficiently indexing, mining, querying, searching, and retrieving multimedia data. The Multimedia - Processing and Applications 2010 (MMAP 2010) Symposium addresses several themes related to theory and practice within multimedia domain. The enormous interest in multimedia from many activity areas (medicine, entertainment, education) led researchers and industry to make a continuous effort to create new, innovative multimedia algorithms and application. As a result the conference goal is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners in order to communicate their newest and original contributions on topics that have been identified (see below). We are also interested in looking at service architectures, protocols, and standards for multimedia communications - including middleware - along with the related security issues, such as secure multimedia information sharing. Finally, we encourage submissions describing work on novel applications that exploit the unique set of advantages offered by multimedia computing techniques, including home-networked entertainment and games. However, innovative contributions that don't exactly fit into these areas will also be considered because they might be of benefit to conference attendees.
* CALL FOR PAPERS
MMAP 2010 is a major forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. The MMAP 2010 Symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of multimedia domain ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications. MMAP 2010 invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Papers acceptance and publication will be judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions.
* TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest are related to Multimedia Processing and Applications including, but are not limited to the following areas:
- Image and Video Processing
- Speech, Audio and Music Processing
- 3D and Stereo Imaging
- Distributed Multimedia Systems
- Multimedia Databases, Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval
- Data Mining
- Multimedia in E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications
- Multimedia in Medical Applications
- Multimedia Authentication and Watermarking
- Entertainment and games
- Multimedia Interfaces
* PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
- Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the symposium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.
- Accepted and presented papers will be published as paper in the Conference Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore® database.
- Extended versions of selected best papers will be published in a special issue of IJCSA: International Journal of Computer Science & Applications, ISSN 0972-9038. http://www.tmrfindia.org/ijcsa.html
- Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file).
- The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages (LNCS style). LNCS style templates are available.
31.05.2010 – Submission deadline
12.07.2010 – Notification of acceptance
23.08.2010 – Camera-ready version of the accepted papers
18.10-20.10.2010 – Symposium
* GENERAL MMAP 2010 CHAIR
Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
* Steering Committee
Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA
Thomas M. Deserno, Aachen University, Germany
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA
* Organizing Committee
Dumitru Dan Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Liana Stanescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Marius Brezovan, University of Craiova, Romania
* Publicity Chairs
Amelia Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
* Program Committee
José Luis Sevillano Ramos, University of Sevilla, Spain
Michael Lang, National University of Ireland, Ireland
David Bustard, University of Ulster, UK
Janis Grundspenkis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Rynson Lau, Shanghai University, P.R. China
Gregory Wojtkowski, Boise State University, USA
Che-Chern Lin, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Bogdan Logofatu, University of Bucuresti, Romania
Toshio Okamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Wita Wojtkowski, Boise State University, USA
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Qi Chun, Xi'an Jiaotong University, P.R.China
Enn Õunapuu, University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
George Tsihrintzis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Stefan Trzcielinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Wilfried Philips, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Vladimir Cretu, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federation
Kazuo Ohzeki, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Valery Korzhik, State University of Telecommunications, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Boris Shishkov, IICREST / Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA
Laszlo Böszörmenyi , Klagenfurt University, Austria
Vladimir Fomichov, State University Moscow, Russian Federation
Miguel Angel Vega-Rodríguez, University of Extremadura, Spain
Dan Popescu, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia.
Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Giuseppe Mangioni, University of Catania, Italy
Stefan Trausan-Matu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
Reggie Kwan, Caritas Francis Hsu College, Hong Kong
Rami Finkler, Afeka College of Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel
Alexander Verbraeck, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France
Christopher Barry, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Romulus Grigoras, IRIT - University of Toulouse, France
Mihai Mocanu, University of Craiova, Romania
Andrea Molinari, University of Trento, Italy
Franz Wotawa, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria
Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece
Jacek Zurada, University of Louisville, USA
Ryszard Choras, Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, P.R. China
Rajkumar Kannan, Bishop Heber College, India
Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Yoshimi Teshigawara, Soka University, Japan
Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
George Thiruvathukal, Loyola University, USA
Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Canada
Thursday, September 11, 2008
P2P'08: Last day, the day after the social event...
Today, I'd like to report from the last day of P2P'08 (a.k.a. the day after the social event; follow me on twitter for some details) and also give some highlights from yesterday's keynote, industry session, and so on.
Yesterday's keynote from Anja Feldmann (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories) was about the relationship between ISPs and P2P, i.e., challenges and opportunities. In particular, there needs to be information exchanged between ISPs and P2P system which is a huge issue. In fact, the ISP does not want to provide information about their topology which would help to increase the performance of the P2P system. However, she proposed a compromise in a way that the P2P system shall provide a list of destination IPs (i.e., other peers to which a peer may connect) and the ISP returns a ranked list of destination IPs based on their topology. In this way locality is provided during peer selection without exposing the ISP's infrastructure details. Some people say that this might face scalability/complexity issues as such a query might easily include thousands of IPs. A paper about this can be found here.
From the industry session I'd like to pick up two talks and briefly summarize them. The first from Martin Stiemerling (NEC), "A Peer-to-Peer SIP System based on Service-Aware Transport Overlays", with the goal to provide a generic P2P and transport overlay system that is not bound to a certain usage (e.g., files, voice, video). In that sense the developed a Service-aware Adaptive Transport Overlay (SATO) which includes dynamic adaptation to changes (network, context). However, they only focus on voice and for IPTV it is a complexity issue of transcoding thousands of streams in parallel (no SVC used). This work has been done in the context of the Ambient Networks project. The second talk I'd like to mention was from Victor Souza (Ericsson) about "P2P traffic in ISP Network" that had a strong relationship to the keynote (see above). For live streaming they propose a time shift mechanism comprising content ingestion, content migration, content lookup, and content download. They have a prototype out there that allows for both VoD and live streaming. Furthermore, they propose to place media caches near the customer. However, there were strong doubts that this will be possible. Anyway, it is interestin to see that others have similar problems as we have and how they're trying to solve them.
Traditionally, P2P is about file sharing and has been extended to games, voice, audio, video (VoD, Live Streaming, IPTV) applications' space. At P2P'08 I've discovered some further application areas:
Next year, the conference will take place in Seattle.
Yesterday's keynote from Anja Feldmann (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories) was about the relationship between ISPs and P2P, i.e., challenges and opportunities. In particular, there needs to be information exchanged between ISPs and P2P system which is a huge issue. In fact, the ISP does not want to provide information about their topology which would help to increase the performance of the P2P system. However, she proposed a compromise in a way that the P2P system shall provide a list of destination IPs (i.e., other peers to which a peer may connect) and the ISP returns a ranked list of destination IPs based on their topology. In this way locality is provided during peer selection without exposing the ISP's infrastructure details. Some people say that this might face scalability/complexity issues as such a query might easily include thousands of IPs. A paper about this can be found here.
From the industry session I'd like to pick up two talks and briefly summarize them. The first from Martin Stiemerling (NEC), "A Peer-to-Peer SIP System based on Service-Aware Transport Overlays", with the goal to provide a generic P2P and transport overlay system that is not bound to a certain usage (e.g., files, voice, video). In that sense the developed a Service-aware Adaptive Transport Overlay (SATO) which includes dynamic adaptation to changes (network, context). However, they only focus on voice and for IPTV it is a complexity issue of transcoding thousands of streams in parallel (no SVC used). This work has been done in the context of the Ambient Networks project. The second talk I'd like to mention was from Victor Souza (Ericsson) about "P2P traffic in ISP Network" that had a strong relationship to the keynote (see above). For live streaming they propose a time shift mechanism comprising content ingestion, content migration, content lookup, and content download. They have a prototype out there that allows for both VoD and live streaming. Furthermore, they propose to place media caches near the customer. However, there were strong doubts that this will be possible. Anyway, it is interestin to see that others have similar problems as we have and how they're trying to solve them.Traditionally, P2P is about file sharing and has been extended to games, voice, audio, video (VoD, Live Streaming, IPTV) applications' space. At P2P'08 I've discovered some further application areas:
- P2P-based file system: IGOR File System, "The IGOR File System Demonstration" (Bernhard Amann, Benedikt Elser, Yaser Houri, Thomas Fuhrmann)
- P2P-based Wiki engine: Piki - A Peer-to-Peer based Wiki Engine (Patrick Mukherjee, Christof Leng, Andy Schürr)
- P2P-based power control system: "Towards P2P Technologies for the Control of Electrical Power Systems" (Kolja Eger, Christoph Gerdes, Sebnem Öztunali)
Next year, the conference will take place in Seattle.
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