Category Archives: ATHENA

LEADER: A Collaborative Edge- and SDN-Assisted Framework for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming

Posted on January 19, 2022 by

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) May 16–20, 2022 | Seoul, South Korea [PDF][Slides][Video] Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, UK), … Continue reading →

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CODA: Content-aware Frame Dropping Algorithm for High Frame-rate Video Streaming

Posted on January 18, 2022 by

Data Compression Conference (DCC) March 22-25, 2022 | Snowbird, Utah, US [PDF] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, UK), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt). … Continue reading →

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VQEG NORM talk on Video Quality Analyzer

Posted on December 16, 2021 by

Vignesh V Menon and Hadi Amirpour gave a talk on ‘Video Complexity Analyzer for Streaming Applications’ at the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) meeting on December 14, 2021. Our research activities on video complexity analysis were presented in the talk. … Continue reading →

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Quality Optimization of Live Streaming Services over HTTP with Reinforcement Learning

Posted on December 12, 2021 by

IEEE Global Communications Conference December 07-11, 2021 | Madrid, Spain Conference website [PDF] Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), R. Falanji (Sharif University of Technology), Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Alireza Erfanian (AAU, Austria), P. S. Mashhadi (Halmstad University), Christian Timmerer … Continue reading →

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VCIP’21 Tutorial: A Journey towards Fully Immersive Media Access

Posted on December 6, 2021 by

VCIP 2021 Sunday, December 5, 2021 https://www.vcip2021.org/call-for-tutorials/ Lectures: Christian Timmerer, AAU, AT Tobias Hoßfeld, Univ. Würzburg, DE Raimund Schatz, AIT, AT Abstract: Universal access to and provisioning of multimedia content is now a reality. It is easy to generate, distribute, share, … Continue reading →

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ANGELA won the 2nd Best Paper Award in IFIP/IEEE PEMWN 2021 Conference

Posted on December 1, 2021 by

The ANGELA: HTTP Adaptive Streaming and Edge Computing Simulator paper from ATHENA lab has won the 2nd Best Paper Award in the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks (PEMWN). More information about the paper … Continue reading →

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Farzad Tashtarian to give a talk at IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain

Posted on November 24, 2021 by

Farzad Tashtarian is invited to talk on “LwTE: Light-weight Transcoding at the Edge” at IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain. [Slides] https://www.slideshare.net/christian.timmerer/lwte-lightweight-transcoding-at-the-edge

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