Technical Program

 June 13, Monday

9.00 – 9.30 a.m. OPENING

9:30 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Session 1: MULTIMEDIA DATA PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION


AM1.1     Invited paper
Cross-Layer Rate-Adaptation and Joint Source-Channel Coding For Delay-Constrained Video Streaming Over Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
Q. Qu, Y. Pei, J. Modestino, X. Tian, B. Wang, and X. Yu

AM1.2 Assessment of H.264 Coded Panorama Sequences
M. Ries, O. Nemethova, B. Badic, and M. Rupp

10:30 – 10:50 a.m. Coffee Break

AM1.3 Invited Paper
Resource-Distortion Optimal Video Coding and Communications
H. Wang and A. Katsaggelos

AM1.4 Invited Paper
Big Videos on Small Networks: A Hierarchical and Distributed Architecture for a Video on Demand Distribution Service
C.E.C.F. Batista, T.L. Salmito, L.E.C. Leite, G. Lemos de Souza Filho, and G.E. da Silveira

AM1.5 A Versatile Multiplexing Algorithm Exclusively Based on the MPEG-2 Systems Layer
S. Rivas, V. M. Gulias and C. Abalde

AM1.6 Transport Mechanisms for Metadata-driven Distributed Multimedia Adaptation
M. Ransburg, C. Timmerer, and H. Hellwagner

12:50 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch

2:30 – 6:20 p.m.
Session 2: QUALITY OF SERVICE


PM1.1 Invited Paper
Optimizing QoS Aware Ethernet Spanning Trees
T. Cinkler, I. Moldovan, A. Kern, C. Lukovszki, and G. Sallai

PM1.2 Quality of Service Considerations in Collaborative Learning Environments
A. Quintero, S. Pierre, and D. Tassy

PM1.3 A VoIP QoS Guarantee Method Applying the Adaptive Committed Information Rate to Downstream Service-Flows in HFC Network
J.W. Park, J.G. Shin, Y.H. Kim, and M.J. Lee

PM1.4 Discerning User-perceived Media Stream Quality Through Application-Layer Measurements
A.C. Dalal and K. Purrington

4:30 – 4:50 p.m. Coffee Break

PM1.5 Invited Paper
Playout Buffering in IP Telephony: a Quality Maximization Approach
L. Atzori, M.L. Lobina, and M. Isola

PM1.6 Multiple Description Wavelet Image Coding for Reliable Delivery and QoS Maintenance
Y. Sriraja, S. Krishnamurthy, and T. Karp

PM1.7 Differentiation of Traffic on Access Networks
M. Luoma and J. Huttunen

7:30 – 9:30 Conference Banquet



June 14, Tuesday

9:00 – 10:00 a.m. Keynote Speech

Digital Storytelling: The Next Killer Application
Charles N. Judice

10:00 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Session 3: MULTIMEDIA SERVICES


AM2.1    Invited Paper
Playback Delay and Buffering Optimization in Scalable Video Broadcasting
J-P. Wagner and P. Frossard

10:30 – 10:50 a.m. Coffee Break

AM2.2    Invited Paper
Enhanced-Reality Multimedia Communications for 4G Mobile Networks
T. Ohya and T. Miki

AM2.3    Invited Paper
Efficient P2P data dissemination in a Homogeneous Capacity Network using Structured Mesh
T. Nguyen, D. Tran, and S. Cheung

AM2.4    A Packet Scheduling Algorithm Supporting Multimedia Traffic over the HSDPA Link based on Early Delay Notification
A. Golaup, O. Holland, and A.H. Aghvami

AM2.5    USHA: A Practical Vertical Handoff Solution
L.-J. Chen, T. Sun, and M. Gerla

12:50 – 2:30 p.m. Lunch Break

2:30 – 5:20 p.m.
Session 4: ACCESS NETWORK DESIGN AND EVALUATION


PM2.1    Invited Paper
CSMA/CCA: A Modified CSMA/CA Protocol Mitigating the Fairness Problem for IEEE 802.11 DCF
X. Wang and G.B. Giannakis

PM2.2    An Adaptive MAC-PHY Approach for Medium Access Control in VBR MC-CDMA Systems
G.B. Scorza, C. Sacchi, and F. Granelli

PM2.3    A Novel Architecture for Roaming between 3G and Wireless LANs
F. Siddiqui, S. Zeadally, and S. Fowler

4:00 – 4:20 p.m. Coffee Break

PM2.4    Empirical Evaluation of Upstream Throughput in a DOCSIS Access Network
S. Bhatia, R. Bartos and C. Godsay

PM2.5    Voice Delay Considerations for DSL Multimedia Access Network Design and Operation
S. Wright, A. J. Vernon, and A. Whited