CMPSCI 691: Multimedia Networking
Fall 1995
Reading List

Professor Jim Kurose
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts/Amherst
Fall 1995

The reading list for the seminar is below. It is likely that some of these readings may be omitted during the semester, and new readings added. The numbers following certain readings below correspond to the page numbers for those readings in the class notes.

Part I: ATM Networks (approx 7 classes)

• ATM Overview. Presenter: Jim Kurose . Reading: Text, chapters 1 - 4, sections 5.1 and 5.2

• The ATM Physical Layer. Reading: Text, section 5.3. Presenter: Jim Kurose .

• The ATM Layer. Reading: Text, section 5.4. Presenter: Jim Kurose .

• The ATM Adaptation Layer. Reading: Text, section 5.5. Presenters: R. Ramjee, S. Sahu

• Congestion Control. Presenters: Rajeev Koodli, Steve Morin .

  ``Congestion Control and Traffic Management in ATM Networks: Recent Advances and a Survey,'' R. Jain, to appear in Computer Networks and ISDN, Fall 1995. 1

• ATM Signalling. Reading: Text, chapter 6. Speaker: V. Firoiu, Byrisetty Rajeev

  ``A Survey of of UNI Signalling Systems and Protocols for ATM Networks,'' B. Stiller, ACM Computer Communication Review, pp. 21 - 33, April 1995 31

• ATM switching. Reading: Text, Chapter 7. Presenter: Anlu Yan .

Part II: High-speed, Multimedia Internet (approx 6 classes)

• ``Next generation IP,'' S. Bradner and A. Mankin, Internet RFC 1752, Jan 1995. 45. Speakers: Matt Kimmel, Erich Nahum.

• ``Integrated services in the internet architecture: an overview,'' R. Braden, D. Clark, and S. Shenker, RFC 1633, June 1994. 71. Speaker: Sue Moon.

• ``Supporting real-time applications in an integrated services packet network: architecture and mechanism,'' David D. Clark, Scott Shenker, and Lixia Zhang, Proc. SIGCOMM92 Conference, pp. 14-26. 87. Presenter: Eric McCall

  ``Link Sharing and Resource Management Models for Packet Networks,'' S. Floyd and V. Jacobsen, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 3, No. 4 (August 1995), pp. 365 - 386. 101

  ``A comparison of Internet and ATM Service Models ,'' J. Crowcroft, (unpublished) 123. Speaker: Sue Moon.

  ``Fundamental Design Issues for the Future Internet,'' S. Shenker, to appear in IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications, Sept. 1995. 131. Speaker: Claudio Casetti, Kiran Toutireddy.

• ``RSVP: A New Resource Reservation Protocol,'' L. Zhang et al, IEEE Network, Vol. 5, Sept. 1993, pp. 8 - 18. 155

Part III: QoS Guarantees and networking aspects of multimedia (5 classes)

• ``Providing quality of service in packet switched networks'', D. Towsley, Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems, (ed. L. Donatiello and R. Nelson), Springer-Verlag, pp. 560-586, 1993. 167. Speakers: Jim Doyle and John Alderson

  ``Open Issue and Challenges in Proving Quality of Service Guarantees in High-Speed Networks,'' J.F. Kurose, ACM Computer Communication Review, Jan 1993, (Vol. 23, no. 1) pp. 6 - 15. 195. Jim Doyle and John Alderson

• ``Quality of Service Guarantees in Virtual Circuit Switched Networks,'' R.L. Cruz, IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 13, No. 6 (Aug. 1995), pp/ 1048 - 1056. 205. Speaker: Sneha Kasera .

• `` Measurement-Based Admission Control for Integrated Services Packet Networks, S. Jamin et al, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM95 Conference, pp. 2 - 13. 215. Speakers: C. Panayiotou, F. Lo Presti

• D. Ferrari, A. Banerjea, H. Zhang, ``Network Support for Multimedia: A Discussion of the Tenet Approach,'' Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, pp. 1267 - 1280, 1994. 227

• The MPEG standard. Speaker: David Yates, Michael Kieras .

  Didier Le Gall "MPEG: A Video Compression Standard for Multimedia Applications", CACM Vol.34, No.4, (April 1991), pp. 47 - 58. 243

  "A Study of MPEG Coding for Variable Bit Rate Video Transmission", P. Pancha and M. El Zarki, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 32 No 5, (May 1994. ), pp. 55-66. 257

  L. Chiariglione, ``MPEG: A Technological Basis for Multimedia Applications,'' IEEE Multimedia, Spring 1995, pp. 85 - 89. 271

• ``Fundamental Limits and Tradeoffs of Providing Quality of Service Guarantees to VBR Video Traffic," E. Knightly, D. Wrege, and H. Zhang, Proc ACM SIGMETRICS95 Conference, pp. 98-107. 277. Presenter: David Finkel .

Part IV: Multimedia Servers and Operating Systems (6 classes)

• ``Resource Management in Networked Multimedia Systems,'' K. Nahrstedt and R. Steinmetz, IEEE Computer, May 1995, pp. 52 - 64. 287. Presenters: Subhabrata Sen and Hiroyuki Kaneko

• ``Analyzing the Multimedia Operating System,'' R. Steinmetz, IEEE Multimedia, Spring 1995, pp. 68 - 84. 299

• ``Multimedia Storage Servers: A Tutorial,'' D. Gemmel, H. Vin, D. Kandlur, P.V. Rangan, L. Rowe IEEE Computer, May 1995, pp. 40 - 49. 317

• ``OS Support for VOD File Service, Multimedia Systems,'' K.K. Ramakrishnan, Multimedia Systems, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 53 - 65. 327. Presenter: J. Padhye

• ``ATM-based multimedia Servers,'' R. Roohlamini and V. Cherkassy, IEEE Multimedia, Spring 1995, pp. 39 - 52. 341

• ``A Distributed Hierarchical Storage Manager for a VOD System,'' C. Federighi and L. Rowe, SPIE Conference, 1994, pp 185-197. 355

• ``Networked Multimedia: The Medusa Environment,'' Andy Hopper, IEEE Multimedia, Winter 1994, pp. 54 - 63. 369

• Applications
  • ``Distance Learning with Digital Video,'' F. Tobagi, IEEE Multimedia, Spring 1995, pp. 90 - 93. 379. Presenter: Mia Stern

  • ``Controlling Processes with Distributed Multimedia,'' A. Guha et al. IEEE Multimedia, Summer 1995, pp. 20 - 29. 383

  • ``Experiments in Multipoint Multimedia Telecommunication,'' H.W.P Beadle, IEEE Multimedia, Summer 1995, pp. 30 - 40. 393

  • ``Multimedia Mednet: A medical Collaboration and Consultation System,'' R. Simon et al., Presenter: Mia Stern IEEE Multimedia, Summer 1995, pp. 65 - 73. 405