| Lecturer/Manager | Professor Dan Rubenstein |
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| Office hours: | Location: CEPSR 816 By appointment only |
| Office phone: | (212) 854-0050 |
| Email address: | dsr100@columbia.edu |
| Day & Time Class
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Wed 1:35-4:05pm |
| Location: | 1024 Mudd |
| Credits for Course: | 3.0 |
| Class Type: | Seminar |
| Teaching Assistant: | NONE |
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| Description: |
Note: this description is from two years ago! 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): | None. |
| Project(s): | For Summer 2003, a student's entire grade will be based on a report that they submit at the end of the summer. The report should be approximately 10 pages in length, and should describe how the research field has changed over the past 2 years. The student is expected to do a literature survey of recent publications from networking conferences (e.g., INFOCOM, SIGCOMM, ICNP, ICC) and workshops and summarize how the field has evolved. Your writeup should select a few (5-10) papers, cite them, and discuss them in depth (in what can fit in a 10 page report). It is not acceptable to use trade magazine articles, white papers, or web-pages as substitutes for technical material. You can cite these other articles, but you may not use them to go into depth about the subject. Click here for more detailed instructions. |
| Paper(s): | see the reading list |
| 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. |
| Project submission: | E-mail Professor Rubenstein the final report at dsr100@columbia.edu. |