Technical Program

Workshop date: July 11, 2011

9:00 – 10:10: Opening and Keynote by Claude Perron, CTO Thomson Video Networks (Chair: C. Timmerer)

10:10 – 10:30: Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:30: WoMAN Session I (Chair: C. Timmerer)

  • Service Provider and Content Aware Network Provider Cross-Layer Optimisation of Multimedia Distribution by E. Borcoci, S. Obreja, C. Timmerer, G.Xilouris [Slides]
  • Evaluating the Networking Performance of Linux-Based Home Router Platforms for Multimedia Services by I. Kofler, R. Kuschnig, H. Hellwagner [Slides]
  • Evaluation of Bandwidth Performance for Interactive Spherical Video by P. R. Alface, J.-F. Macq, N. Verzijp [Slides] *** Best Paper Award ***
  • Enhancing Legacy Infrastructures with Content-Aware Enablers Towards a Networked-Media Platform by P. Anapliotis, E. Pallis, D. Negru, V. Zacharopoulos [Slides]

12:30 – 13:30: Lunch

13:30 – 15:30: Special Session “Hot Topics in Multimedia Delivery (HotMD)” (Chair: vacant)

  • How Do You “Tube”? Reverse Engineering the YouTube Video Delivery Cloud by V. Adhikari, S. Jain, Y. Chen, Z.-L. Zhang *** No Show ***
  • An Evaluation of Piece-Picking Algorithms for Layered Content in Bittorrent-based Peer-to-Peer Systems by M. Eberhard, T. Szkaliczki, H. Hellwagner, L. Szobonya, C. Timmerer [Slides]
  • A Novel Marking Mechanism for Packet Video Delivery over DiffServ Networks by H. Wang, G. Liu [Slides]
  • A Metric for No-Reference Video Quality Assessment for HDTV Delivery based on Saliency Maps by H. BOUJUT, J. BENOIS-PINEAU, T. AHMED, O. HADAR, P. BONNET [Slides]
  • Skymedia – UAV-Based Capturing Of HD/3D Content with WSN Augmentation for Immersive Media Experiences by M. Neri, A. Campi, R. Suffritti, F. Grimaccia, P. Sinogas, O. Guye, C. Papin, T. Michalareas, L. Gazdag, I, Rakkolainen [Slides]

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 – 18:00: WoMAN Session II (Chair: G. Xilouris)

  • Packetizing Scalable Streams in Heterogenus Peer-to-Peer Networks by A. Sentinelli, T. Anselmo, P. Fragneto, A. Kumar, B. Rossi [Slides]
  • Quality Impact of Scalable Video Coding Tunneling for Media-Aware Content Delivery by M. Grafl, C. Timmerer, H. Hellwagner [Slides]
  • Home Boxes Support for an Efficient Video on Demand Distribution by S. A. Chellouche, W. Aubry, D. Négru, Y. Chen [Slides]
  • A Preliminary Implementation of a Content–Aware Network Node by N. Vorniotakis, G. Xilouris, G. Gardikis, N. Zotos, A. Kourtis, E. Pallis [Slides]

18:00 – 18:15: Best Paper Award and Closing (Chair: C. Timmerer)