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Network-Assisted Adaptive Streaming: Toward Optimal QoE through System Collaboration Farzad Tashtarian Habilitation On 14.11.2025, Farzad Tashtarian defended his habilitation “Network-Assisted Adaptive Streaming: Toward Optimal QoE through System Collaboration” at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Abstract: Providing seamless, low-latency, and energy-efficient … Continue reading →

SEED: Energy and Emission Estimation Dataset for Adaptive Video Streaming IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] Samira Afzal (Baylor University), Narges Mehran (Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Andrew C. Freeman (Baylor … Continue reading →

Receiving Kernel-Level Insights via eBPF: Can ABR Algorithms Adapt Smarter? Würzburg Workshop on Next-Generation Communication Networks (WueWoWAS) 2025 6 – 8 Oct 2025, Würzburg, Germany [PDF] Mohsen Ghasemi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Daniele Lorenzi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria); Mahdi Dolati (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Farzad … Continue reading →

A Tutorial at  ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Optimizing Low-Latency Video Streaming: AI-Assisted Codec-Network Coordination [Link] Coimbra, Portugal, September 8 – 11, 2025. Tutorial speakers: Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität – AAU) Zili Meng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – HKUST) Abdelhak … Continue reading →

The 3rd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems (EMS) 2025 colocated with ACM SIGCOMM 2025. Multimedia has played a significant role in driving Internet usage and has led to a range of technological advancements, such as content delivery networks, compression algorithms, … Continue reading →

DORBINE Project Approved by FFG. DORBINE is a project Funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG A cooperative project between AIR6 Systems and Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU)    For more information, please visit the DORBINE webpage here.  

The 2nd IEEE ICME Workshop on Surpassing Latency Limits in Adaptive Live Video Streaming (LIVES’25) June 30 to July 4, 2025, Nantes, France. CFP Call For Submissions Delivering video content from a video server to viewers over the Internet is … Continue reading →