P2P file sharing of digital content has been enormously popular in recent years. More recently, one can observe the advent of P2P real-time life streaming systems such as PPlive and others. At the same time, in many countries network access providers start offering triple play which includes video streaming.
We will be organizing a workshop on Media Streaming in the Internet on Sunday, Sept 10, 2006 in Pisa, Italy right before Sigcomm 06, which will also be in Pisa.
The workshop is by invitation only and we would like to make it as informal as possible. The aim is to bring together for a day a group of people with expertise in the area so they can exchange their ideas and share their insights and hopefully at the end of the day come to some kind of agreement on what has already been achieved and what remain important open issues.
Here a some questions we will try to answer:
- What is in your opinion the most successful operational media distribution system?
- Where do you see today the main obstacles to a successful deployment life streaming in the Internet?
- Very popular events are well handled by traditional broadcasting companies, while low to medium popular events can be handled with few servers in a central location. What type of content and applications are best suited for P2P live streaming?
- What are the boundaries between on-demand and live streaming? When to use each one of them?
- Should we keep using trees for video streaming distribution? Are mesh networks enough? How much structure is needed?
Organizers:
Ernst Biersack (Institut Eurecom), Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento), Pablo Rodriguez (Microsoft Research)
Location:
Auditorium "G. Toniolo", piazza Duomo, 17(note that the piazza Arcivescovado and piazza Duomo are the same thing)It is very near the Pisa tower.http://www.opapisa.it/index.php?id=221&L=1&T=5http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&hl=fr&q=piazza+Arcivescovado,+pisa&ie=UTF8&z=17&om=1&iwloc=A
Provisional Agenda:
9:00 – Welcome
9:00 – 10:30 Session I: Experiences
Hui Zhang, (CMU) : End System Multicast (to be confirmed)
Jack Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong): On the Properties of Many-to-One Data Flow with Applications to P2P Streaming
Sandeep Singhal (Microsoft): Can P2P Streaming Become Ubiquitous: What will it take and how do we get there?
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session II: Architectures
KK Ramakrishnan (AT&T): IP Backbone Design for Multimedia Distribution: Architecture and Performance
Paul Francis (Cornell): Trees versus meshes: Is the debate really over?
Christos Gkantsidis (Microsoft): Pushing the limits of unstructured P2P networks: Can they support video streaming?
12:30 – 13:00 Agree on afternoon discussion topics
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Topic One
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:30 Topic Two
17:30 – Closing remarks
Attendees:
Paul Francis (Cornell)
Sandeep Sighal (Microsoft)
Hui Zhang (CMU)
Fabio Pianese (Ft R&D)
Damiano Carra (University of Trento)
Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento)
Pablo Rodriguez (Microsoft Research)
Ernst Biersack (Institut Eurecom)
Polly Huang, (National Taiwan University)
Jack Y. B. Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Bruce Maggs (Akamai, CMU)
Anne-Marie Kermarrec (Inria)
Dimitris Vyzovitis (MIT)
Dejan Kostic (EPFL)
Meeyoung Cha (KAIST)
J. Crowcroft (Cambridge University)
KK Ramakrishnan (AT&T)
Laurent Massoulie (Thomson)
Sue Moon (KAIST)
Christos Gkantsidis (MSRC)
Arnaud Legout (Inria)
Reza Rejaie (Oregon Univ)
Christophe Diot (Thomson)
Christophe Neumann (Thomson)
Aman Shaikh (AT&T)
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