Group meeting

We hold regular meetings for discussion and for every student to update the group on his/her progress. In some of the meetings, graduate students present talks summarizing their research progress so far.

The meetings are good opportunities for students to practice their presentation skills and to get constructive feedback from the group on their research. The meetings keep the group members informed about different research problems being addressed in the group. They are also very helpful in finding research topics, especially for new students.

Everybody is welcome to attend. Meeting time: changes each semester. Location: TASC1 8208.

Summer 2017

• 5 Jul at 1:30 PM: Hamed Ahmadi, TBD

• 19 Jun: Omar Eltobgy, TBD

• 29 May: Mohammed Shatnawi

Spring 2017

• 11 Apr: Alaa, Event-based Control as a Cloud Service

• 04 Apr: Ahmed Hamza, Quality-aware 3D Video Delivery

• 28 Mar: Kiana, VR Content Generation from Regular Cameras for Sports

• 14 Mar: Khaled, MASH: A Rate Adaptation Algorithm for Multiview Video Streaming over HTTP

Fall 2016

• 13 Dec: Canceled Ahmed Hamza

• 29 Nov: Tarek, Streaming Virtual Reality Content

• 15 Nov: Saleh, Adaptive Streaming over Heterogeneous Networks

• 01 Nov: Hamed, FVV Adaptive Streaming

• 18 Oct: Alaa, Event-based Control as a Cloud Service

• 27 Sep: Khaled, Telco-CDNs for Video Delivery Systems: Overview, Challenges and Opportunities

Spring 2016

• 25 Feb: Khaled, Adaptive Multiview Streaming over HTTP

• 11 Feb: Alaa

• 28 Jan: Saleh, Adaptive Multicast Streaming over Heterogeneous Cellular Networks

• 14 Jan: Tarek, ePigeon: Reliable News Videos Upload Over the Cloud

Fall 2015

• 15 Dec: Canceled Tarek

• 01 Dec: Canceled Tarek

• 17 Nov: Denny

• 03 Nov: Hamza, (present A. El Essaili et al., QoE-Based Traffic and Resource Management for Adaptive HTTP Video Delivery in LTE, IEEE TCSVT, 2015)

• 20 Oct: Kiana, Gradient-based 2D-to-3D Conversion (ACM MM'15)

• 06 Oct: Shatnawi (practice MM talk)

• 29 Sep: Denny, Research Objectives During NSL's Visit

• 08 Sep: Khaled, Next-generation Video Streaming Systems: Overview and Challenges

Summer 2015

• 24 Aug: Maram

• 10 Aug: Scott (present Xin Jin et al., Dynamic Scheduling of Network Updates, ACM SIGCOMM'14)

• 27 Jul: Canceled Shatnawi

• 13 Jul: Canceled Scott

• 29 Jun: Alaa, Industrial Automation as a Cloud Service

• 15 Jun: Kiana, DepthTransfer: Depth extraction from video using non-parametric sampling

• 01 Jun: Saleh (present Chen et al., A scheduling framework for adaptive video delivery over cellular networks, ACM MobiCom'13)

• 19 May Canceled Saleh (present Chen et al., A scheduling framework for adaptive video delivery over cellular networks, ACM MobiCom’13)

• 04 May: Khaled, (present Perry et al., Fastpass: A Centralized “Zero-Queue” Datacenter Network, ACM SIGCOMM'14)

Spring 2015

• 27 Apr: Canceled (INFOCOM)

• 13 Apr: Shatnawi (practice INFOCOM talk)

• 07 Apr: Hamza (Practice PhD Proposal Exam)

• 16 Mar: Kiana, Depth Customization in Anahita

• 02 Mar: Saleh, Dynamic Configuration of Single Frequency Networks for Mobile Video Streaming (MMSys'15)

• 16 Feb: Canceled Kiana (2D-3D Conversion)

• 02 Feb: Canceled Hamza (Free-viewpoint Video Streaming)

• 19 Jan: Shatnawi, Data-driven Federated Control of Distributed Transactions in Online Services

• 05 Jan: Khaled, Storage Management in 3D Streaming Systems

Spring 2013

• 16 Apr: Tamir, Evaluation of Feedback Control as a Cloud Service

• 02 Apr: Saleh, A User Behaviour Model for Video-on-Demand Services

• 19 Mar: Masum, OFDMA Cell Resource Allocation in HetNets

• 05 Mar: Som, Canceled

• 19 Feb: Abdullah, Hybrid Storage Systems

• 05 Feb: Kiana, 2D-to-3D Video Conversion

• 22 Jan: Ahmed Abdelsadek, Scalable, Dynamic, High-Dimensional Similarity Index for Multimedia Information Retrieval

• 08 Jan: Ahmed Hamza, Video Retargeting

Fall 2012

• 11 Dec: Abdul, Radio Resource Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

• 27 Nov: Tamir,

• 13 Nov: Saleh, A Scalable Video-on-demand Streaming Algorithm over LTE Networks

• 30 Oct: Masum, Power-Efficient Multicast-Unicast Video-on-Demand Streaming Algorithms over LTE Networks

• 16 Oct: Ahmed Bu-Khamsin, PCIe Interconnect for HPC Applications

• 02 Oct: Som, Cloud-based Multimedia Streaming

• 18 Sep: Azin, Video Streaming over Cognitive Radio Networks

Spring 2011

• 01 Feb: Ahmed Bu-khamsin, Top Ten Computationally-Complex Problems in Oil and Gas Exploration Filed

• 25 Jan: Naghmeh, 3D Video Copy Detection

• 18 Jan: Cameron, Video Copy Detection using Optical Flow

• 11 Jan: Mathieu, 3D Media - An Overview

Group meetings were held biweekly up to Dec 2010.

Fall 2010

• 21 Dec: Group discussion.

• 09 Dec: Mohammad, Detection of SIP Botnets Based on C&C Communication

• 23 Nov: Taher, Approximation algorithms for Large-Scale Kernel Methods

• 19 Oct: Jeff, Gram Matrix Approximation Using Locality Sensitive Hashing on Cluster

• 07 Oct: Dr. Rocky Chang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Active Measurement of Data-Path Quality in a Non-cooperative Internet

• 28 Sep: Ahmed, Energy-Efficient Gaming on Mobile Devices using Dead Reckoning-based Power Management

Spring/Summer 2010

• 31 Aug: Hamed, Predicting Click Through Rate for New Ads with Semantically Similarity Measurement

• 09 Aug: Yuanbin, Efficient Algorithms for Multi-Sender Data Transmission in Swarm-based P2P Streaming Systems

• 03 Aug: Azin, Cognitive Radio Networks

• 20 Jul: Farid, Optimal Scalable Video Multiplexing in Mobile Broadcast Networks

• 17 May: Cameron, Reducing Energy Consumption in Online Network Games on Mobile Devices

• 10 May: Cong, Latency Reduction in Online Network Games

• 19 Apr: Shabnam, Live P2P Streaming with Scalable Video Coding and Network Coding

• 29 Mar: Jeff and Taher, Approximation algorithms for Kernel Methods on Multi-core CPUs and GPUs

• 15 Mar: Som, Video Streaming over WiMAX

• 01 Mar: Farid, Scalable Video Streaming for MobileTV

• 01 Feb: Ahmed, Design of pCDN with Scalable Video Coding

• 18 Jan: Shabnam, P2P Streaming with Newtork Coding and Scalable Video Coding

Fall 2009

• 08 Dec: Yi, Video Streaming over Cooperative Wireless Networks

• 10 Nov: Cheng, Design of a Mobile TV Testbed

• 27 Oct: Yuanbin, Segment Scheduling in P2P Streaming Systems

• 13 Oct: Ahmed, Long Term Evolution (LTE) - A Tutorial

• 06 Oct: Cheng, Statistical Multiplexing of VBR Video Streams (ACM MM 09 talk)

• 22 Sep: Som, Video Streaming over WiMAX Networks

• 08 Sep: Cong, Minimizing Round-Trip Time in Online Games

Summer 2009

• 18 August 09: Mohammad and Cong: 30 min each. Present their Directed Reading projects.

• 14 Jul: Cheng, Broadcasting Variable-Bit-Rate Videos in 802.16e-Like Mobile Networks

• 07 Jul: Yi

• 26 Jun: Ahmed

• 05 Jun: Canceled (Mohamed attending NOSSDAV'09)

• 29 May: Kianoosh, End-to-End Secure Delivery of Scalable Video Streams

• 22 May: Cong, Multimedia Streaming over WiMAX Networks

• 08 May: Kianoosh, Analysis of Authentication Schemes for Nonscalable Video Streams

Spring 2009

• 17 Apr: Cheng (practice your infocom presentation)

• 27 Mar: Andreas Berger, Network-based Detection of SIP Bots

• 27 Feb: Shabnam and Yuanbin

• 23 Jan: Cheng (rehearse your PhD proposal) and Kianoosh