Sunday, June 28, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Kevin Jeffay
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Computer Science
jeffay@cs.unc.edu
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jeffay

In order to realize real-time communications on the Internet today, multimedia applications must be adaptive and must sense and react to the time-varying levels of bandwidth available to them. In this tutorial we will study the fundamental principles of the management of live multimedia data on the Internet. These include techniques for ameliorating the effects of delay-jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth variation. These principles will be studies within the context of the design of an adaptive videoconferening system. We demonstrate how the data management techniques can be applied and how well they are likely to perform by presenting the results of a recent Internet performance study.

Kevin Jeffay is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1989. Dr. Jeffay’s primary research interests are in multimedia networking and real-time operating systems and he has authored over 50 papers in these areas. Dr. Jeffay presently serves as the Program Chair for the 1999 SPIE/ACM Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking and as Co-Program Chair of ACM Multimedia ‘99.