Conference Program


    8:30 AM: Opening Remarks

    Keynote (9:00 - 10:00 AM):
    Speaker: Dr. Giridhar Mandyam
    Title: Video Services and the Mobile Web

    Coffee Break (10:00 - 10:30 AM)

    Session 1 (10:30 - 12:00 noon):
    Reliable Transport and Encoding Mechanisms

    Using NATO! for Partially Reliable Large Scale Multicast Streaming in Broadcast Wireless Networks
    Alexander Landau; Reuven Cohen

    Cooperative Layered Video Multicast using Randomized Distributed Space-time Codes
    Ozgu Alay; Pei Liu; Zhili Guo; Luqin Wang; Yao Wang; Elza Erkip; Shivendra Panwar

    DMRC: Dissemination of Multimedia in Vehicular Networks Using Rateless Codes
    Mohsen Sardari; Faramarz Hendessi; Faramarz Fekri

    Optimizing the DVB-SH FEC Scheme for Efficient Erasure Recovery
    Mohamed Amine Ismail; Thierry Turletti; Walid Dabbous

    Lunch Break (12:00 - 1:30 PM)

    Session 2 (1:30 - 3:00 PM):
    Enhancing Quality-of-Service for Mobile Video

    Improving Video Quality in 802.11 Networks
    Claudio Monteiro and Paulo Gondim

    Selective Packet Discard in Mobile Video Delivery based on Macroblock-Level Distortion Estimation
    Michael Schier; Michael Welzl

    Rate adaptation for conversational 3G Video
    Varun Singh; Joerg Ott; Igor Curcio

    Studying On The Move - Enriched Presentation Video For Mobile Devices
    Alon Efrat; Kobus Barnard; Arnon Amir; Chris Gniady; Quanfu Fan

    Coffee Break (3:00 - 3:30 PM)

    Session 3 (3:30 - 5:00 PM):
    Mobile Video Delivery in Adhoc and P2P environment

    A Real-Time Peer-to-Peer Streaming System for Mobile Networking Environment
    Jani Peltotalo; Jarmo Harju; Marko Saukko; Lassi Väätämöinen; Imed Bouazizi; Igor Curcio; Joep van Gassel

    An Experimental Study on Wi-Fi Ad-Hoc Mode for Mobile Device-to-Device Video Delivery
    Bo Xing; Karim Seada; Nalini Venkatasubramanian

    LORD: A Locality-based Distributed Data Sharing System for Highly Dense and Dynamic MANETs
    Ze Li; Haiying Shen

    Streaming multimedia contents to nomadic users in ubiquitous computing environments
    Matteo Repetto; Sergio Mangialardi; Riccardo Rapuzzi; Raffaele Bolla