Project

You will work on the project in groups of two or three. Some of the high level topics are given below. Generate a project idea on a topic of
your interest and present a project plan to carry it out.  Milestones are as follows:

•  Feb 20 or sooner: you are expected to have picked your group and identified a topic .
•  March  6 or sooner: the group should present a project plan.
•  April 17 : present a progress report.
•  May 19: submit final report and schedule a demo, if any.

• Video streaming over Internet
• Video Multicasting and applications
• Congestion control and bandwidth allocation for packet video
• Network adaptive video coding and transport
• Efficient transcoding for heterogeneous networks
• Performance modeling and evaluation for packet video network with emphasis on user preceived quality
• Layered coding for error resilience and heterogeneous networks
• Video processing for multi-camera surveillance systems
• Video segmentation for semantic annotation and transcoding
• VoIP service management
• Wireless and mobile multimedia network management and Quality of Service
• Peer-to-peer multimedia services
• Interactive network games
• Collaborative audio/video conferencing

Your project plan must include: 1) clearly stated problem; 2) solution approaches -- current and new that you propose; 3) implementation plan of your solution using either simulation or modeling or other means; 4) evaluation metrics you will use for comparative analysis of the current and new solutions.

Progress report may be given verbally in class.

Final Project Report:

The format for your final project report should be similar to the standard IEEE conference paper including sections on Introduction, Related Work, Proposed Solution/Architecture/Algorithms, Simulation/Implementation, Results, Conclusion.

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Partial Video Server  and RTSP and RTP Implementation  (Adapted from Kurose - Ross on Computer Networks). Use this idea for further expertimentation and analysis of video streaming using the Internet as the delivery network. Project will not be given any credit if the experimentation and analysis parts are missing.