CS795 Recent Advances on Internet Media Distribution
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Dr. Songqing Chen |
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Office: |
445 S&T II |
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Phone: |
703-993-3176 |
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E-mail: |
sqchen AT cs dot gmu dot edu |
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Office Hours: |
Tuesday 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m, or by appointment |
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Course Homepage: |
http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~sqchen/courses/CS795
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This class focuses on the recent advances on Internet media.
Different from the traditional
text-based Web contents, media objects are generally larger in size and
are less frequently updated once they are produced. With the rapid increasing
amount of Internet media objects, it is very important to understand
the current state-of-the-art of Internet media and related techniques.
In this class, we particularly focus on the recent advancement for the
Internet media distribution systems -- issues and techniques that are
related to how media contents are delivered to each client.
The following topics will be covered: Internet measurements about the
popularity of various media services on the Internet, quality of
different services; resource provisioning on the Internet for media
distribution in a client/server infrasturecture, or CDN/MDN, or P2P
systems; overlay multicasting for the Internet streaming; security and
privacy considerations in a media distribution system. We are going to
study these systems in depth by discussing merits and limits of
different systems and conflicts and synergy among different systems.
CS 656/CS671 or the permission from the intructor.
- Understanding the State-of-the-art
- Media Distribution System Overview
- Performance Issues in Media Distribution
- Security and Privacy Issues in Media Distribution
- Media Traffic on the Internet
- Media Delivery over Wireless Networks
This is a paper reading
based and project-oriented course. Students are required to write
summaries of some discussed papers, to present selected papers,
and to complete a self-selected project. Students in this class will
experience the entire procedure of identifying a problem, defending
her/his proposal, and completing a project. There are no mid-term or
final. Your final grade is a combination of the participation and summaries (20%), presentation (30%), and
project result (50%).
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Dr. Songqing Chen
Dept. of Computer Science
George Mason University