Packet losses, long delay, and insufficient bandwith pose serious problem for high quality video streaming over the Internet. As such, many solutions have been proposed for effective video streaming, ranging from source coding, channel coding to network protocols and architecture. In this research, we investigate the path diversity framework in conjunction with source and channel coding techniques to overcome the lack of QoS on the Internet in order to faciliate high quality video streaming. Having multiple paths is in essence a diversification scheme in that it combats unpredictability of congestion in the Internet. That said, P2P and Content Distribution Networks provide a natural framework for path diversity deployment. To this end, our research focus on combining path diversity, source and channel coding techniques in the context of P2P and Content Dstirbution Networks for high quality video streaming.

Publications

1. M. Lertthiswong, T. Nguyen, A. Fern," Wireless Video Streaming for Single-Hop Networks." submitted IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 11/2007
2. T. Nguyen, K. Kolazhi, R. Kamath, S. Cheung, D. Tran, "Efficient Multimedia Distribution in Source Constraint Networks, " IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (to appear)
3. S. Tullimas, T. Nguyen, R. Edgecomb, S. Cheung, "Multimedia Streaming Using Multiple TCP
   Connections," ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Vol. 4 Issue 3, August, 2008
4. Duc. Tran and T. Nguyen, " Broadcasting Techniques for Video on Demand in Wireless Networks," Handbook of Mobile Broadcasting (CRC Press)
5. D. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, Y. Xue, "Multimedia Streaming Using Network Coding," IEEE Packet Video Workshop, 2007
6. M. Lerstthiwong, T. Nguyen, A. Fern, " Wireless Video Streaming with Collaborative Admission Control for Home Networks " IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2007
7. K. Nguyen, T. Nguyen, S. Cheung, "Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Hierarchical Network Coding," IEEE International Conference on Multmedia and Expo, 2007
8. T. Nguyen, K. Kolazhi, R. Kamath, S. Cheung, "Efficient Video Dissemination Using Structured Hybrid P2P Networks," IEEE International Conference of Multimedia and Expo, 2006, Invited Paper
9. T. Nguyen, D. Tran, S. Cheung, "Efficient P2P Data Dissemination in a Homogeneous Capacity Network Using Structured Mesh," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Services Access Networks, June 2005, Invited Paper
10. T. Nguyen and S. Cheung, "Multimedia Streaming with Multiple TCP Connections," IEEE IPCCC April, 2005.
11. T. Nguyen and Zakhor, A., "Multiple sender distributed video streaming," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 6, Issue: 2 , April 2004, Pages: 315-326
12. T. Nguyen and A. Zakhor, "Matching Pursuits Based Multiple Description Video Coding for Lossy Environment," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2003, Barcelona, Spain. Invited Paper.
13. T. Nguyen, P. Mehra , A. Zakhor, "Path Diversity and Bandwidth Allocation for Multimedia Streaming," IEEE International Conference of Multimedia and Expo, 2003, July 6-9, Baltimore, MD, USA, Invited Paper.
14. T. Nguyen and A. Zakhor, " Path Diversity with Forward Error Correction (PDF) System for Packet Switched Networks," IEEE INFOCOM 2003, April 1-5, San Francisco CA, USA.
15. T. Nguyen and A. Zakhor, "Distributed Video Streaming with Forward Error Correction," IEEE Packet Video Workshop 2002, Pittsburgh PA, USA. Best Paper Award!
16. T. Nguyen and A. Zakhor, "Protocols for Distributed Video Streaming," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2002, Rochester NY, USA.
17. T. Nguyen and A. Zakhor, "Distributed Video Streaming over the Internet," Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking , San Jose, California, January 2002.