Publications

• Analytic Models of Differentiated Service Disciplines for Bottleneck Access Links
  Rai, I., G. Urvoy-Keller, M. K. Vernon, and E. Biersack, "Performance of LAS-based Scheduling Disciplines in a Packet Switched Network", to appear in Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS 2004/Performance 2004 Joint Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, New York, June 2004. (postscript, pdf)

• Near-optimal Scalable Download Protocols
  Carlsson, N., D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Multicast Protocols for Scalable On-Demand Download", to appear in Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS 2004/Performance 2004 Joint Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, New York, June 2004.
  

• Streaming Content Distribution Networks with Minimum Total Delivery Cost
  Almeida, J. M., D. L. Eager, M. K. Vernon, and S. Wright, "Minimizing Delivery Cost in Scalable Streaming Content Distribution Systems", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Special Issue on Streaming Media, April 2004.

• Scalable Protocols for "Choose Your Own Ending" VOD Services
  Zhao, Y., D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Scalable On-Demand Streaming of Non-Linear Media", Proc. 23rd Annual Conf. IEEE Communications Society (Infocom 2004), Hong Kong, March 2004. (postscript, pdf )
  One of 4 papers selected for fast-track publication in IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking.

• Near-optimal Scalable streaming with packet loss recovery (RPB & RBS protocols)
  Mahanti, A., D. L. Eager, M. K. Vernon, and D. Sundaram-Stukel, "Scalable On-Demand Media Streaming with Packet Loss Recovery", IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, Vol. 11, No. 2, April 2003, pp. 195-209. (pdf)

  One of 3 papers selected for journal publication from Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Conf. on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication (SIGCOMM 2001), San Diego, Aug. 2001, pp. 97-108.

• Analytic model of TCP Vegas throughput
  Samios, C. (Babis) and M. K. Vernon, "Modeling the Throughput of TCP Vegas", Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS 2003 Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sigmetrics 2003) San Diego, June 2003. ( postscript, pdf )

• Server bandwidth requirements for downloads and interactive streaming
  Tan, H., D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Delimiting the Effectiveness of Scalable Streaming Protocols", Proc. IFIP WG 7.3 22nd Int'l. Symp. on Computer Performance Modeling and Evaluation (Performance 2002), Rome, September 2002. (postscript, pdf)

• Content caching to minimize server delivery cost
  Almeida, J. M., D. L. Eager, M. C. Ferris, and M. K. Vernon, "Provisioning Content Distribution Networks for Streaming Media", Proc. 21st Annual Joint Conf. of IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (Infocom 2002), New York, June 2002. (postscript, pdf)

• Network bandwidth requirements for multicast streaming
  Zhao, Y., D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Network Bandwidth Requirements for Scalable On-Demand Streaming", Proc. 21st Annual Joint Conf. of IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (Infocom 2002), New York, June 2002. (postscript, pdf)

• Client QoS in Patching and Bandwidth Skimming Systems
  Tan, H., D. L. Eager, M. K. Vernon, and H. Guo, "Quality of Service Evaluations of Multicast Streaming Protocols", Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS 2002 Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems Marina del Rey, June 2002. (postscript, pdf)

• Bandwidth skimming protocols for VBR content (VBRBS)
  Zhao, Yanping, D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Efficient Delivery Techniques for Variable Bit Rate Multimedia", Proc. Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002, San Jose, Jan. 2002. (postscript, pdf)

• Media server workload characterization (eteach and BIBS)
  Almeida, J. M., J. Krueger, D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Analysis of Educational Media Server Workloads", Proc. 11th Int'l. Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2001), June 2001. (postscript, pdf)

• Caching policy for unicast streams (hybrid CMP/interval caching)
  Almeida, J. M., D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "A Hybrid Caching Strategy for Streaming Media Files", Proc. Multimedia Computing and Networking 2001, San Jose, Jan. 2001. (postscript, pdf)

• Required server bandwidth: dynamic skyscraper, lower bounds, and proposed new hierarchical stream merging protocol
  Eager, D., M. Vernon, and J. Zahorjan, "Minimizing Bandwidth Requirements for On-Demand Data Delivery", Technical Report #1418a, Computer Science Dept., University of Wisconsin, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol 13, No. 5, Special Section of invited papers from MIS'99, Sep/Oct. 2001, pp. 742-757.
  (postscript, pdf)

  (Earlier version of this paper was one of three award papers in Proc. 5th Int'l. Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Indian Wells, CA, October 21-23, 1999.)

• Optimized caching for dynamic skyscraper systems
  Eager, D. L., M. C. Ferris, and M. K. Vernon, "Optimized Caching in Systems with Heterogeneous Client Populations", Performance Evaluation, Special Issue on Internet Performance Modeling, September 2000, pp. 163-185.
  (postscript , pdf)

• Bandwidth Skimming Protocol
  Eager, D., M. Vernon, and J. Zahorjan, "Bandwidth Skimming: A Technique for Cost-Effective Video-on-Demand", Proc. Multimedia Computing and Networking 2000 (MMCN'00), San Jose, CA, January 25-27, 2000. (postscript, pdf)

• Hierarchical stream merging algorithms: Closest Target (CT), ERMT
  Eager, D., M. Vernon, and J. Zahorjan, "Optimal and Efficient Merging Schedules for Video-on-Demand Servers", Proc. 7th ACM Multimedia Conf. (Multimedia '99), Orlando, Nov., 1999, pp. 199-202. (postscript , pdf)

Related Prior Publications by SWORD Participants

• Eager, D. L., M. C. Ferris, and M. K. Vernon, "Optimized Regional Caching for On-Demand Data Delivery", Proc. 1999 Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN '99), San Jose, CA, January 25-27, 1999, pp. 301-316. (pdf, 11/16/98)

• Eager, D. L., and M. K. Vernon, "Dynamic Skyscraper Broadcasts for Video-on-Demand", Proc. 4th Int'l. Workshop on Advances in Multimedia Information Systems (MIS '98), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1508, edited by S. Jajodia, M. T. Ozsu, and A. Dogac, Springer, Istanbul, Sept. 1998, pp. 18-32. (pdf)

• Tsiolis, A. K., and M. K. Vernon, "Group Guaranteed Channel Capacity in Multimedia Storage Servers", Proc. ACM Sigmetrics '97, Seattle, June 1997, pp. 285-297. (pdf)