Lecturer/Manager | Professor Dan Rubenstein |
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Office hours: | Location: CEPSR 816 Weekly time: Tu, 2-4pm or by appt |
Office phone: | (212) 854-0050 |
Email address: | dsr100@columbia.edu |
Day & Time Class
Meets on Campus: |
Wed 1:35-4:05pm |
Location: | 1024 Mudd |
Credits for Course: | 3.0 |
Class Type: | Seminar |
Teaching Assistant: | NONE |
Prerequisites: |
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Description: |
The Internet was conceived as a means to transmit data with very loose
timing and quality of service (QoS) requirements. Applications such
as FTP, e-mail, static web-page delivery, and MP3-swapping work well
in this environment. However, it is believed by many that the
Internet can be extended to be the dominant carrier of multimedia
communication, such as broadcast radio, broadcast TV, telephony,
televideo-conferencing, and gaming. Already, numerous multimedia
applications are being deployed. However, transmission quality, over
the Internet is often poor, and, at best, unpredictable, leading to a
continued dependence on alternative means for most multimedia
communication (e.g., telephone networks, television [cable], radio
[AM/FM]). It is clear that in itscurrent state, the Internet cannot
meet the requirements of existing and upcoming multimedia
applications.
This seminar will explore ways in which researchers are proposing
changes to how we use the Internet to support and deliver
multimedia-based applications. The seminar will focus on four
apsects of this problem
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Homework(s): | Each week, every student should either produce a conference-like review of one of the papers, or a paragraph describing what the papers "left out", i.e., what still needs to be done. The one-paragraph description is preferred, but students have the option of the review if they do not have any ideas on where future work should lead for a given area. |
Project(s): | TBD - depends on the number of students enrolled. |
Paper(s): | A list of suggested papers will be available shortly. Students interested in the course should feel free to suggest topics, areas, or specific papers that they wish to see.. |
Midterm exam: | There is no midterm |
Final exam: | There is no final exam |
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Computer hardware and software requirements: | Computer account. Access to the web to download papers. Access to a Linux or Solaris machine is assumed if a project becomes part of the course.. |
Paper review submission: | TBD: either provided on-line, by e-mail, or turned in during class. . |