18. NOSSDAV 2008: Braunschweig, Germany

Networking for virtual worlds

• Grenville J. Armitage:
  Optimising online FPS game server discovery through clustering servers by origin autonomous system. 3-8
  
• Wei Cheng, Wei Tsang Ooi:
  Receiver-driven view-dependent streaming of progressive mesh. 9-14
  
• Wei-Lun Sung, Shun-Yun Hu, Jehn-Ruey Jiang:
  Selection strategies for peer-to-peer 3D streaming. 15-20
  

Network and operating system support

• Dan Ardelean, Ethan Blanton, Maxim Martynov:
  Remote active queue management. 21-26
  
• Elad Lahav, Martin Karsten, Tim Brecht, Weihan Wang, Tony Zhao:
  Group unicast for the real world. 27-32
  
• Håkon Kvale Stensland, Carsten Griwodz, Pål Halvorsen:
  Evaluation of multi-core scheduling mechanisms for heterogeneous processing architectures. 33-38
  

Digital audio and video

• Mohit Saxena, Umang Sharan, Sonia Fahmy:
  Analyzing video services in Web 2.0: a global perspective. 39-44
  
• Yicheng Huang, Guangming Hong, Vu An Tran, Ye Wang:
  Decoding-workload-aware video encoding. 45-50
  
• Stefano Ferretti, Marco Roccetti, Fabio Strozzi:
  On developing tangible interfaces for video streaming control: a real case study. 51-56
  

Video streaming in wireless environments

• Xiaolin Cheng, Prasant Mohapatra, Sung-Ju Lee, Sujata Banerjee:
  Performance evaluation of video streaming in multihop wireless mesh networks. 57-62
  
• Ingo Kofler, Martin Prangl, Robert Kuschnig, Hermann Hellwagner:
  An H.264/SVC-based adaptation proxy on a WiFi router. 63-68
  

Analyses and conclusions

• James Kinicki, Mark Claypool:
  Traffic analysis of avatars in Second Life. 69-74
  
• Cheng Huang, Angela Wang, Jin Li, Keith W. Ross:
  Understanding hybrid CDN-P2P: why limelight needs its own Red Swoosh. 75-80
  
• Luca De Cicco, Saverio Mascolo, Vittorio Palmisano:
  Skype video responsiveness to bandwidth variations. 81-86
  

Streaming with P2P support

• Razib Iqbal, Behnoosh Hariri, Shervin Shirmohammadi:
  Modeling and evaluation of overlay generation problem for peer-assisted video adaptation and streaming. 87-92
  
• Bin Cheng, Lex Stein, Hai Jin, Zheng Zhang:
  A framework for lazy replication in P2P VoD. 93-98
  
• Kalman Graffi, Sebastian Kaune, Konstantin Pussep, Aleksandra Kovacevic, Ralf Steinmetz:
  Load balancing for multimedia streaming in heterogeneous peer-to-peer systems. 99-104
  

Demonstrations

• Christian Spielvogel, László Böszörményi, Peter Kropf:
  A demo for affinity based content delivery architectures. 107-108
  
• Ishan Vaishnavi, Pablo César, A. J. Jansen, Bo Gao, Dick C. A. Bulterman:
  A mechanism for presentation-layer media continuity in media playback mode. 109-110
  
• Sangwoo Han, JongWon Kim:
  A multi-agent-based toolkit for multimedia-oriented collaboration environments. 111-112
  
• Jens Brandt, Lars C. Wolf:
  Adaptive video streaming for mobile clients. 113-114
  
• Klaus Schöffmann, László Böszörményi:
  Fast and flexible video content browsing based on H.264/AVC features. 115-116
  
• Heiko Perkuhn, Markus Kampmann:
  IMS advanced media delivery. 117-118
  
• Miroslaw Czyrnek, Cezary Mazurek, Ewa Kusmierek, Maciej Stroinski:
  iTVP: platform for digital audio and video delivery over broadband IP networks. 119-120
  
• Matthias Dick, Sven Lahde, Lars C. Wolf:
  MPEG analyzer a tool for visualizing MPEG encoding characteristics. 121-122
  
• Tonio Triebel, Benjamin Guthier, Richard Süselbeck, Gregor Schiele, Wolfgang Effelsberg:
  Peer-to-peer infrastructures for games. 123-124
  
• Shinya Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Murata, Naoki Shibata, Keiichi Yasumoto, Minoru Ito:
  QoS adaptation in streaming 3D graphics for FAIRVIEW. 125-126
  
• Andreas Petlund, Kristian Evensen, Carsten Griwodz, Pål Halvorsen:
  TCP enhancements for interactive thin-stream applications. 127-128
  
• Håvard Espeland, Carl Henrik Lunde, Håkon Kvale Stensland, Carsten Griwodz, Pål Halvorsen:
  Transparent protocol translation and load balancing on a network processor in a media streaming scenario. 129-130