Schedule

Here is a tentative schedule for the semester. The dates for the projects and exams are fixed; however, the dates/topics for lectures are tentative.

Week#	Date	Topic	Slides	Due	Additional Reading
1	August 30, 2001	Course Overview	Handout.ps
2	Sept 4, 2001	Introduction	Slides-1.ps
	Sept 6, 2001	Video Compression: Fundamentals	Slides-2.ps
3	Sept 11, 2001	JPEG and MPEG	Slides-3.ps	Project 1 Available
	Sept 13, 2001	Scalable Layered Coding
4	Sept 18, 2001	Video Servers: Basics	Slides4.ps
	Sept 20, 2001	Placement Techniques			Striping Techniques
5	Sept 25, 2001	Fault-tolerance Techniques	Slides-5.pdf		Fault Tolerance
	Sept 27, 2001	Retrieval Techniques	Slides-6.pdf		Statistical and Predictive Admission Control
6	Oct 2, 2001	Caching Techniques	Slides-7.pdf	Project 1 Due Project 2 Available
	Oct 4, 2001	Integrated Multimedia File System: Design Issues	Slides-8.pdf		Design of Symphony and Cello Disk Scheduling
7	Oct 9, 2001	Case Study
	Oct 11, 2001	Review
8	Oct 16, 2001	MIDTERM			Practice Problems
	Oct 18, 2001	Protocols for Video Transport	Slides-9.pdf		Stored Video Transport Live Video Smoothing
9	Oct 23, 2001	Issues in Designing Integrated Services Networks	Slides10.pdf
	Oct 25, 2001	Packet Scheduling Algorithms
10	Oct 30, 2001	Fair Scheduling Algorithms	Slides11.pdf		SFQ Scheduling
	Nov 1, 2001	Fair Scheduling Algorithms		Project 2 Due	Fair Airport Scheduling
11	Nov 6, 2001	Analysis of Scheduling Algorithms	Slides12.pdf	Project 3 Available	GR Framework GGR Framework
	Nov 8, 2001	Alternate Network Architectures
12	Nov 13, 2001	OS Support for Multimedia: An Introduction	Slides13.pdf		Hierarchical SFQ scheduler
	Nov 15, 2001	CPU Scheduling
13	Nov 20, 2001	I/O Management Issues
	Nov 22, 2001	No Class (Thanksgiving)
14	Nov 27, 2001	OS Structure
	Nov 29, 2001	Future Directions		Project 3 Due
15	Dec 4, 2001	Review
	Dec 6, 2001	FINAL