ViSNext’21 Program

The workshop will take place on Tuesday December 7th 2021, between 12:00 and 16:00. All times are in Central European Time (CET, UTC+1).

Time-slot	Content
Technical session I: 12:00 – 13:00	Network-assisted Video Streaming PRISM based Transport: How Networks can Boost QoS for Advanced Video Services? N. Rozen-Schiff, A. Navon, L. Bruckman, I. Pechtalt LwTE-Live: Light-weight Transcoding at the Edge for Live Streaming  A. Erfanian, H. Amirpour, F. Tashtarian, C. Timmerer, H. Hellwagner Chair: Abdelhak Bentaleb, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Keynote speaker 13:00 – 14:00	Towards Immersive Volumetric Media Delivery Filip De Turck, Ghent University, Belgium Chair: Tim Wauters, Ghent University, Belgium
Technical session II: 14:00 – 15:00	Learning-based QoE Enhancement An ML-Based Approach for Near Real-Time Content Caching D. Lima, B. Oliveira, P. Mendes, L. Costa, Y. Coelho Learning-driven MU-MIMO Grouping for Multi-User Multimedia Applications Over Commodity WiFi  H. Pasandi, H. Amirpour, T. Nadeem, C. Timmerer Chair: Halima Elbiaze, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Panel session 15:00 – 16:00	Network-assisted video streaming and QoE improvement: challenges and opportunities Cornelius Hellge, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute Lucia D’Acunto, TNO, Netherlands Abdelhak Bentaleb, National University of Singapore, Singapore Lea Skorin-Kapov, University of Zagreb, Croatia Moderator: Hermann Hellwagner, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

Call For Submissions

In recent years, we have witnessed phenomenal growth in live video traffic over the Internet, accelerated by the rise of novel video streaming technologies, advancements in networking paradigms, and our ability to generate, process, and display videos on heterogeneous devices. Regarding the existing constraints and limitations in different components on the video delivery path from the origin server to clients, the network plays an essential role in boosting the perceived Quality of Experience (QoE) by clients. The ViSNext workshop aims to bring together researchers and developers working on all aspects of video streaming, in particular network-assisted concepts backed up by experimental evidence. We warmly invite submission of original, previously unpublished papers addressing key issues in this area, but not limited to:

• Design, analysis, and evaluation of network-assisted multimedia system architectures
• Optimization of edge, fog, and mobile edge computing for video streaming applications
• Optimization of caching policies/systems for video streaming applications
• Network-assisted resource allocation for video streaming
• Experience and lessons learned by deploying large-scale network-assisted video streaming
• Internet measurement and modeling for enhancing QoE in video streaming applications
• Design, analysis, and evaluation of network-assisted Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) streaming
• Network aspects in video streaming: cloud computing, virtualization techniques, network control, and management, including SDN, NFV, and network programmability
• Routing and traffic engineering in end-to-end video streaming
• Topics at the intersection of energy-efficient computing and networking for video streaming
• Network-assisted techniques for low-latency video streaming
• Machine learning for improving QoE in video streaming applications
• Machine learning for traffic engineering and congestion control for video streaming
• Solutions for improving streaming QoE for high-speed user mobility
• Analysis, modeling, and experimentation of DASH
• Big data analytics at the network edge to assess viewer experience of adaptive video
• Reproducible research in adaptive video streaming: datasets, evaluation methods, benchmarking, standardization efforts, open-source tools
• Novel use cases and applications in the area of adaptive video streaming
• Advanced network-based techniques for point clouds, light field, and immersive video
• Low delay and multipath video communication

Submission Instruction

• Solicited submissions include both full technical workshop papers and white paper position papers. The maximum length of such submissions is up to 6 pages (excluding references) in 2-column 10pt ACM format.
• Papers must include author names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the program committee.  Authors of accepted submissions are expected to present and discuss their work at the workshop. Register and submit your paper here.
• Download CFP.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: Sep. 17, 2021
• Paper Submission: Extended to Friday, 24 September, 2021 (AoE, hard deadline)
• Notification of Acceptance: Oct. 18,  2021
• Camera-ready: Oct. 25,  2021
• Workshop Event: Dec. 7,   2021

Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs

• Farzad Tashtarian, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
• Tim Wauters, Ghent University, Belgium
• Halima Elbiaze, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
• Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

Technical Program Committee

• Abdelhak Bentaleb, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Ali C. Begen, Ozyegin University, Turkey
• A. Montazerolghaem, University of Isfahan, Iran
• Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
• Eckehard Steinbach, University of Technology Munich
• Filip De Turck, Ghent University, Belgium
• Gwendal Simon, Huawei Technologies
• Hadi Amirpourazarian, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
• Halima Elbiaze, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
• Hermann Hellwagner, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
• Jeroen van der Hooft, Ghent University, Belgium
• Jiangchuan (JC) LIU, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Lucia D’Acunto, TNO, Netherlands
• M.H. Yaghmaee, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
• Mallesh Dasari, Stony Brook University, New York
• Mohamed Hefeeda, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Mohsen Amini Salehi, University of Louisiana
• Müge Sayıt, Ege University
• Peyman Mashhadi, Halmstad University, Sweden
• Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas
• Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• S. Reza Kamel, Islamic Azad Univerisity of Mashhad, Iran
• Serhan Gül, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
• Thomas Zinner, Norwegian university of science and technology
• Tim Wauters, Ghent University, Belgium

Keynote Speech

The workshop keynote speech will be delivered by Prof. Filip De Turck.

Title: Towards Immersive Volumetric Media Delivery

This keynote talk will first present a review of video streaming over telecommunication networks, and its evolution over time. The importance and the opportunities provided by volumetric media delivery will be outlined by means of several examples. The most appropriate platform design for volumetric media delivery and the various challenges and possible approaches will be highlighted next. Finally an overview of research challenges and opportunities will be presented.

Filip De Turck is a full professor at the department of Information Technology (Intec) of Ghent University with expertise in communication software, network resource management, adaptive service delivery and efficient large scale data processing. In this research area, he is involved in and successfully completed many research projects with industry and academia, serves as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM), former chair of the Future Internet Cluster of the European Commission, is on the TPC of many international network and service management conferences and workshops and serves in the Editorial Board of several network and service management journals. Prof. Filip De Turck regularly organizes international workshops on the above mentioned topics, serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), and steering committee member of the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), the IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management (IM) Symposium, the IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft) and the IFIP/IEEE Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). He also served as chair of the IEEE SDN Initiative Conference Committee, which coordinates initiative IEEE events and conferences on Softwarized Networks.

Filip De Turck was named a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for outstanding technical contributions to network resource management and adaptive service delivery. He is currently (co-)author of over 700 publications, his H-index is 55 (GS). He has successfully supervised 43 PhD students and is currently supervising 8 PhD students. He received the IEEE ComSoc Dan Stokesberry Award 2021 for particularly distinguished technical contributions to the growth of the network operations and service management field.

Panelist

• Cornelius Hellge, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany
• Lucia D’Acunto, TNO, Netherlands
• Abdelhak Bentaleb, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Lea Skorin-Kapov,  University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Panel moderator: Hermann Hellwagner Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

Information

Any questions regarding submission issues should be directed to visnext21@itec.aau.at