Management of Layered Variable Bitrate Multimedia Streams over DiffServ with A Priori Knowledge
Homepage of my Master Thesis

💡 Description

Goal of this work is efficient support of layered variable bitrate streams in the CORAL system. To achieve this, an offline algorithm to calculate "useful" remapping intervals a priori has to be implemented first. Then, an algorithm which efficiently maps the available bandwidth to the streams online, based on the calculated intervals, cost of the mapped bandwidth and the users' perceptual quality has to be designed. Finally, the complete system has to be evaluated by measurements.

📰 News

• 03-Oct-2000 Created this page.
• 15-Nov-2000 Intermediate talk slides available for download.
• 20-Feb-2001 Thesis and implementation are complete.
• 23-Feb-2001 Update of papers, documentation and implementation.
• 24-Feb-2001 PDF version available.
• 29-Mar-2002 Download is now available!
• 26-Mar-2012 A slightly updated version is available! It has been reformatted an now also includes PDF hyperlinks.

🕰️ Schedule

• 23-Aug-2000 Introduction talk
• 24-Aug-2000 Start of master thesis
• 15-Nov-2000 Intermediate talk
• 23-Feb-2001 Master thesis deadline
• 12-Apr-2001 Conclusion talk

💾 Download

• Introduction Talk:
  Download of the concept paper (PostScript/GZip, in German only),
  Download of the slides (PowerPoint/GZip, in German only)
• Intermediate Talk:
  Download of the slides (PowerPoint/GZip, in German only)
• The Master Thesis:
  Updated version (PDF; March 26, 2012)
  Old version (PDF; February 20, 2001)
  Old version (PostScript/GZip; February 20, 2001)
• Conclustion Talk:
  Download of the slides (PowerPoint/GZip, in German only)
• The Implementation:
  Download of the sources (Tar/GZip)

📖 Documentation of the Implementation

• List of all files
• List of all classes
• Class hierarchy
• Documentation as PDF file

🎬 The Traces

The server in Bonn containing my traces (http://gaffel.cs.uni-bonn.de:7088/TracesArchive/index.html) does not run any more. But if you are interested, the traces are available directly from me.

🔗 Useful Links

• RTP Audio Homepage
• Vorlesung Rechnernetze I
• Vorlesung Rechnernetze II
• IPv6-HowTo