Work at Cisco

Information about my:

• Conference and Industry Talks
• Research and Recruitment Talks, and Tutorials
• Standards Contributions
• Publications

Conference and Industry Talks

• On the Scalability of RTCP-Based Network Tomography for IPTV Services
  IEEE CCNC 2010 (Special Session on IPTV towards Seamless Infotainment) - January 2010
• The Future of Video Services
  Packet Video Workshop 2009 (Panel Session) - May 2009
• Reducing Channel Change Times in IPTV with Real-Time Transport Protocol
  VSF VidTrans 2009 - February 2009
• A Unified Approach for Repairing Packet Loss and Accelerating Channel Changes in Multicast IPTV
  IEEE CCNC 2009 (Special Session on IPTV towards Seamless Infotainment) - January 2009
• IP/MPLS Core Network Impacts on IPTV SLAs and Quality of Experience
  SMPTE/VSF Joint Conference 2008 - February 2008
• Error Control for IPTV over xDSL Networks
  IEEE CCNC 2008 (Special Session on IPTV Technologies and Applications) - January 2008

Research and Recruitment Talks, and Tutorials

• IPTV and the Future of Video Services
  Georgia Tech (CoC Seminar) - January 2010 (Link)
• IPTV and the Future of Video Services (pdf)
  IEEE CCNC 2010 (Tutorial) - January 2010 (Link)
• Video Transport, Distribution and Quality of Experience
  University of Toronto (ECE Department) - October 2009 (Link)
• A Unified Approach for Repairing Packet Loss and Accelerating Channel Changes in Multicast IPTV
  IEEE Computer Society (Vancouver Chapter) - April 2009 (Link)
• Video Transport, Distribution and Quality of Experience
  Simon Fraser University (CS Department) - February 2009 (Link)
• VQE - Techniques to Improve IPTV Quality of Experience
  DoCoMo USA Research Labs - June 2008
• VQE - Techniques to Improve IPTV Quality of Experience
  Stanford University (EE - IVMS Group Meeting) - April 2008 (Link)
• Impact of Core and Access Network Impairments on IPTV SLAs
  Bilkent University (EE/CS Weekly Seminar) - March 2008
• Impact of Core and Access Network Impairments on IPTV SLAs
  Drexel University (ECE Colloquium) - March 2008 (Link)
• Impact of Core and Access Network Impairments on IPTV SLAs
  Georgia Tech (ECE 6542 Guest Lecture) - February 2008
• Video-on-Demand and IPTV Solutions
  Georgia Tech (CSIP/Telecom Weekly Seminar) - October 2007

Standards Contributions

FECFRAME WG Drafts

• SDP Elements for FEC Framework
• RTP Payload Format for Non-Interleaved and Interleaved Parity FEC
• Pseudo Content Delivery Protocol (CDP) for Protecting Multiple Source Flows in FEC Framework
• DVB Application-Layer Hybrid FEC Protection
• RTP Payload Format for 1-D Interleaved Parity FEC

MMUSIC WG Drafts

• Forward Error Correction Grouping Semantics in Session Description Protocol
• FEC Grouping Issues in Session Description Protocol

AVT WG Drafts

• Considerations for RAMS Scenarios
• Port Mapping Between Unicast and Multicast RTP Sessions
• RTP Payload Format for MPEG2-TS Preamble
• Multicast Acquisition Report Block Type for RTCP XR
• Post-Repair Loss RLE Report Block Type for RTCP XR
• Unicast-Based Rapid Acquisition of Multicast RTP Sessions

Publications

• Ali C. Begen, Colin Perkins and Joerg Ott, "On the use of RTP for monitoring and fault isolation in IPTV," IEEE Network, to appear, 2010 [pdf]
• Xing Jin, S.-H. Gary Chan, Wan-Ching Wong and Ali C. Begen, "A distributed protocol to serve dynamic groups for peer-to-peer streaming," IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst., vol. 21/2, pp. 216-228, Feb. 2010 [pdf]
• Ali C. Begen, Colin Perkins and Joerg Ott, "On the scalability of RTCP-based network tomography for IPTV services," in Proc. IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conf. (CCNC), Special Session on IPTV towards Seamless Infotainment, Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 2010 [pdf]
• K.-H. Kelvin Chan, S.-H. Gary Chan and Ali C. Begen, "Optimizing substream scheduling for peer-to-peer live streaming," in Proc. IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conf. (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 2010 [pdf]
• Khalid Ahmad and Ali C. Begen, "IPTV and video networks in the 2015 timeframe: the evolution to medianets," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 47/12, pp. 68-74, Dec. 2009 [pdf] [blog]
• Zhi Li, Xiaoqing Zhu, Ali C. Begen and Bernd Girod, "Peer-assisted packet loss repair for IPTV video multicast," in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Beijing, China, Oct. 2009 [pdf]
• Y.-T. Hillman Li, Dongni Ren, S.-H. Gary Chan and Ali C. Begen, "Low-delay mesh with peer churns for peer-to-peer streaming," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia and Expo (ICME), New York, NY, June 2009 [pdf] (Invited paper)
• Guifeng Zheng, S.-H. Gary Chan, Xiaonan Luo and Ali C. Begen, "Pattern-push: a low-delay mesh-push scheduling for live peer-to-peer streaming," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia and Expo (ICME), New York, NY, June 2009 [pdf]
• Zhi Li, Xiaoqing Zhu, Ali C. Begen and Bernd Girod, "Forward and retransmitted systematic lossy error protection for IPTV video multicast," in Proc. Packet Video Wksp., Seattle, WA, May 2009 [pdf]
• Ali C. Begen, Neil Glazebrook and William Ver Steeg, "Reducing channel-change times with the real-time transport protocol," IEEE Internet Comput., Special Issue on IPTV, vol. 13/3, pp. 40-47, May/June 2009 [pdf]
• Jason Greengrass, John Evans and Ali C. Begen, "Not all packets are equal, part II: the impact of network packet loss on video quality," IEEE Internet Comput., vol. 13/2, pp. 74-82, Mar./Apr. 2009 [pdf]
• Jason Greengrass, John Evans and Ali C. Begen, "Not all packets are equal, part I: streaming video coding and SLA requirements," IEEE Internet Comput., vol. 13/1, pp. 70-75, Jan./Feb. 2009 [pdf]
• Ali C. Begen, Neil Glazebrook and William Ver Steeg, "A unified approach for repairing packet loss and accelerating channel changes in multicast IPTV," in Proc. IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conf. (CCNC), Special Session on IPTV towards Seamless Infotainment, Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 2009 [pdf] (Invited paper)
• Ali C. Begen, "Error control for IPTV over xDSL networks," in Proc. IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conf. (CCNC), Special Session on IPTV Technologies and Applications, Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 2008 [pdf] (Invited paper)