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Conference and Industry Talks
Research and Recruitment Talks, and Tutorials
Journal and Magazine Publications
Conference Publications

Conference and Industry Talks

TV Everywhere: Part I
Cisco Live London - January 2012
Introductory - A-to-Z Video Architectures: Video Fundamentals, Headend Design, and Video Transport and Distribution
Cisco Live London - January 2012
Watching Video over the Web: Internet Video and Adaptive Streaming Technologies
Cisco Live - July 2011
Introduction to IPTV and Service Provider Video Technologies
Cisco Live - July 2011
Monitoring Video Services in Service Provider Networks (with Aamer Akhter) (pdf)
MENOG 7 - October 2010
Introduction to Service Provider Video Service Technologies, Architectures and Standards (with Greg Thompson)
Cisco Live - June 2010
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

IP-Based Video Delivery: IPTV and Streaming
Georgia Tech (ECE 6613 Guest Lecture) - October 2011
Watching Video over the Web: Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (pdf)
VAWN Seminar Series - March 2011
IPTV - Transport, Distribution and Quality of Experience
Hong Kong Polytechnic University - October 2010 (Link)
IPTV - Transport, Distribution and Quality of Experience
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - October 2010 (Link)
IPTV - Transport, Distribution and Quality of Experience
EPFL - July 2010
IPTV and the Future of Video Services
Georgia Tech (ECE 6613 Guest Lecture) - March 2010
IPTV and the Future of Video Services
Georgia Tech (CoC Seminar) - January 2010
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
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

Journal and Magazine Publications

John Evans, Ali C. Begen, Jason Greengrass and Clarence Filsfils, "Toward lossless video transport," IEEE Internet Comput., vol. 15/6, pp. 48-57, Nov./Dec. 2011 [pdf]
Ali C. Begen, Tankut Akgul and Mark Baugher, "Watching video over the Web, part 2: applications, standardization, and open issues," IEEE Internet Comput., vol. 15/3, pp. 59-63, May/June 2011 [pdf]
Ali C. Begen, Tankut Akgul and Mark Baugher, "Watching video over the Web, part 1: streaming protocols," IEEE Internet Comput., vol. 15/2, pp. 54-63, Mar./Apr. 2011 [pdf]
K.-H. Kelvin Chan, S.-H. Gary Chan and Ali C. Begen, "SPANC: optimizing scheduling delay for peer-to-peer live streaming," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 12/7, pp. 743-753, Nov. 2010 [pdf]
Ali C. Begen, Colin Perkins and Joerg Ott, "On the use of RTP for monitoring and fault isolation in IPTV," IEEE Network, Special Issue on Improving Quality of Experience for Network Services, vol. 24/2, pp. 14-19, Mar./Apr. 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]
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]
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 2: 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 1: streaming video coding and SLA requirements," IEEE Internet Comput., vol. 13/1, pp. 70-75, Jan./Feb. 2009 [pdf]

Conference Publications

Zhi Li, Ali C. Begen and Bernd Girod, "Delay-optimal burst erasure codes for parallel links," in Proc. Int. Symp. Network Coding, Beijing, China, July 2011 [pdf]
Saamer Akhshabi, Ali C. Begen and Constantine Dovrolis, "An experimental evaluation of rate-adaptation algorithms in adaptive streaming over HTTP," in Proc. ACM Multimedia Systems Conf. (MMSys), San Jose, CA, Feb. 2011 [pdf]
Zhi Li, Ali C. Begen, Xiaoqing Zhu and Bernd Girod, "Accelerated IPTV channel change with transcoded unicast bursting," in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Firenze, Italy, Oct. 2010 [pdf]
Zhi Li, Xiaoqing Zhu, Ali C. Begen and Bernd Girod, "IPTV multicast with peer-assisted lossy error control," in Proc. Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Huang Shan, An Hui, China, July 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]
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, "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)