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Farzad Tashtarian to give the initial talk of his habilitation at Klagenfurt University.

Posted on February 27, 2023 by

How to Optimize Dynamic Adaptive Video Streaming? Challenges and Solutions Abstract: Empowered by today’s rich tools for media generation and collaborative production and convenient network access to the Internet, video streaming has become very popular. Dynamic adaptive video streaming is a … Continue reading →

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LALISA: Adaptive Bitrate Ladder Optimization in HTTP-based Adaptive Live Streaming

Posted on December 25, 2022 by

IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 8-12 May 2023 | Miami, FL, USA Conference website [PDF] Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University, Canada), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Babak Taraghi (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Hermann Hellwagner … Continue reading →

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CD-LwTE: Cost- and Delay-aware Light-weight Transcoding at the Edge

Posted on December 15, 2022 by

CD-LwTE: Cost- and Delay-aware Light-weight Transcoding at the Edge IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM) [PDF] Alireza Erfanian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), and Hermann … Continue reading →

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Low Latency Live Streaming Implementation in DASH and HLS

Posted on July 4, 2022 by

ACM Multimedia Conference – OSS Track 10-14 October 2022 | Lisbon, Portugal [PDF] Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Zhengdao Zhan (National University of Singapore), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), May Lim (National University of Singapore), Saad Harous (University of Sharjah), … Continue reading →

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ATHENA at ACM MMSys Conference 2022

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The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference MMSys’22 14th – 17th June 2022 | Athlone, Ireland. Conference Website The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) provides a forum for researchers to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While … Continue reading →

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Farzad Tashtarian to give a short talk at CHIST-ERA conference.

Posted on May 9, 2022 by

Optimizing QoE in Live Streaming over Wireless Networks using Machine Learning Techniques CHIST-ERA Conference 2022 [Website][Abstract] May 25, 2022, Edinburgh, UK Empowered by today’s rich tools for media generation and collaborative production and the convenient wireless access (e.g., WiFi and … Continue reading →

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CoPaM: Cost-aware VM Placement and Migration for Mobile Services in a Multi-Cloudlet Environment: An SDN-based Approach

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Elsevier Computer Communications Journal [PDF] Shirzad Shahryari (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran), Farzad Tashtarian  (AAU, Austria), Seyed-Amin Hosseini-Seno (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran). Abstract: Edge Cloud Computing (ECC) is a new approach for bringing Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) services … Continue reading →

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