University of Florida, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

EEL 6935 -- Multimedia Communications and Networking

Suggested Topics for Projects

• Video compression
  • Scalable video coding
  • Video transcoding
• End-system-based QoS control
  • Error control
    • FEC
      • Channel coding
      • Source-coding-based FEC
      • Joint source/channel coding
    • Error resilience
    • Error concealment
    • Delay-constrained retransmission
  • Congestion control
    • Rate control
    • Rate adaptive encoding
    • Rate shaping
• Wireless video
  • Adaptive coding/modulation for video transmission
  • Cross-layer optimization for wireless video
  • Multiple description coding (MDC) video compression schemes combined with spatial diversity wireless systems such as BLAST.
  • Video over cellular networks
  • Video over ad hoc networks
  • Video over WLAN
  • Video over home networks
  • Video over UWB
• Continuous media distribution services
  • Caching for multimedia
  • Peer-to-peer networks for multimedia
• 4G/5G wireless networks for multimedia services
• Multimedia streaming server
• Multimedia databases (e.g., content-based retrieval of images)
• Media synchronization mechanisms
• Protocols for streaming media
• Video processing
• Other topics (you are encouraged to be creative!)