UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
Department of Computer Science

COSC 7397—Video-on-Demand

Fall 1999 Reading List

  1. An introduction to MPEG by L. Chiraglione himself

  2. A presentation of MPEG-1 by L. Chiraglione

  3. W. J. Bolosky, R. P. Fitzgerald and J. R. Douceur, Distributed Schedule Management on the Tiger Video Fileserver, Proc. 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Saint Malo, France, 1997.

  4. C. S. Freedman and D. J. DeWittt, The SPIFFI Scalable Video on Demand Server, Proc. 1995 SIGMOD Conference, San Jose, CA, May 1995, pp. 352–363.

  5. S. Berson, L. Golubchik, and R. Muntz, Fault Tolerant Design of Multimedia Servers, Proceedings of SIGMOD, May 1995.

  6. L. Golubchik, J. Lui, and R. Muntz, Adaptive Piggybacking: A Novel Technique for Data Sharing in Video-On-Demand Storage Servers, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Volume 4, Number 3, 1996, pp. 140-155.

  7. S. W. Carter and D. D. E. Long. Improving Bandwidth Efficiency on Video-On-Demand-Servers, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, vol. 30, no. 1-2, pp. 99-111.

  8. D. Eager., M. Vernon, and J. Zahorjan, Optimal and Efficient Merging Schedules for Video-on-Demand Servers, to appear in Proc. 7th ACM Multimedia Conf. (Multimedia '99), Orlando, FL, Oct. 30 - Nov. 5, 1999. (postscript , pdf)

  9. A. Dan, D. Sitaram. A Generalized Interval Caching Policy for Mixed Interactive and Long Video Workloads Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking 1996, San Jose, California, January 29-31, 1996.

  10. S. W. Carter, D. D. E. Long and J.-F. Pâris. Video-on-Demand Broadcasting Protocols,, Handbook of Multimedia Communications ( J. D. Gibson, ed.) , to appear(also available in Postscript).

  11. L.-S. Juhn and L.-M. Tseng, Fast Broadcasting and Receiving Scheme for Popular Video Service, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 44:1 (March 1998), pp. 100-104. (available at the library)

  12. J.-F. Pâris, S. W. Carter and D. D. E. Long, A Hybrid Broadcasting Protocol for Video on Demand, Proc. 1999 Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN'99), January 1999, pp. 317-326. (also available in Adobe PDF)

  13. J.-F. Pâris, A Simple Low-Bandwidth Broadcasting Protocol for Video-on-Demand, Proc. 8th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N'99), October 1999, to appear (also available in Adobe PDF).

  14. L.-S. Juhn and L.-M. Tseng, Harmonic Broadcasting For Video-On-Demand Service, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 43:3 (Sept. 1997), pp.268–271. (available at the library)

  15. A. Hu, I. Nikolaidis, P. van Beek, On the Design of Efficient Video-on-Demand Broadcast Schedules, Proc. 7th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '99), October 1999, pages 262-269.

  16. Jehan-François Pâris, Darrell D. E. Long and Patrick E. Mantey, Zero-Delay Broadcasting Protocols for Video-on-Demand, Proc. 1999 ACM Multimedia Conference, Nov. 1999, pages 189-197. (also available in Adobe PDF)

  17. Derek L. Eager, Mary K.Vernon, and John Zahorjan, Minimizing Bandwidth Requirements for On-Demand Data Delivery, Proc. 5th Int'l. Workshop on Advances in Multimedia Information Systems (MIS '99), Indian Wells, CA, October 21-23, 1999. (Award paper; forwarded to a journal.)

  18. Fulu Li and Ioanis Nikolaidis, . Proc. 9th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 99), Basking Ridge NJ, 23-25 June 1999.

  19. Derek L. Eager and Mary K. Vernon, Trace-Adaptive Fragmentation for Periodic Broadcast of VBR Video, Proc. 4th International Workshop on Advances in Multimedia Information Systems(MIS ’98), pages 18–32. (student presentation, not on the final)

  20. Fei, Z., Kamal, I., Mukherjee, S., Ammar, M., " Providing Interactive Functions for Staggered Multicast Near Video-on-Demand Systems (Extended Abstract)," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, June 1999. (student presentation, not on the final)