Spotlights
In the Spotlights column, we profile some of our past and ongoing research projects, each in their dedicated pages or weblog entries. We strive to make them easy to read and to write in layperson’s terms, rather than just a cut and paste from the abstracts of research papers. We may include presentation slides in Adobe PDF and Flash slide shows to make it a bit easier to go deeper into the topic. We would still sometimes link to the related papers, though, just for easier references.
Agilos (1996 — 2000): Quality of Service adaptations made easy. This spotlight feature has been authored in December 2006, in dedication to the ten-year anniversary of the project launch in summer 1996.
Applications of network coding (2003 — current): How practical is network coding? This spotlight feature is being actively maintained and expanded to present our work since 2003 on applications of network coding. How practical is network coding? Is it realistic to expect network coding being applied to real-world peer-to-peer and wireless applications? How to implement network coding in the most efficient fashion? How to design new protocols and algorithms to take full advantage of network coding? What may be the most prominent advantages and drawbacks of network coding?
Magellan (2006 — current): Live peer-to-peer (P2P) multimedia streaming applications have been successfully and commercially deployed in the Internet with up to millions of users at any given time. Wouldn’t it be great if we can obtain a complete and detailed understanding of the topologies, performance metrics, peer dynamics, and ISP clustering effects of such large-scale real-world streaming systems? With the Magellan project, we collaborate with UUSee Inc. — a leading P2P streaming solutions provider in China — to achieve these goals. We attempt to add instrumentation code directly into the commercial product, rather than treating it as a black box, as most other existing studies did.