Multimedia Paper Summaries

Coding, Compression, Media Formats

• NTSC: Nice Technology, Super Color (J.F. Blinn, Cal Tech)
• The World of Digital Video (J.F. Blinn, Cal Tech)
• CCIR 601, "studio quality TV" draft specification
• Perceptual Image Quality: Concept and Measurement (Jacques A.J. Roufs, Inst. for Perception Research, Eindhoven)
• Psychophysics and Modern Digital Audio Technology (A.J.M. Houtsma, Inst. for Perception Research, Eindhoven)
• The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard (Gregory K. Wallace, CACM 34(4))
• Signal Compression Based on Models of Human Perception (Nikil Jayant et al., IEEE 81(10))
• Creatures of Habit: A Field Guide to Video Software Codecs (Christine Perey, in Byte)
• RiVL: A Resolution-Independent Video Language (Jonathan Swartz and Brian Smith, Cornell)
• Human Perception of Media Synchronization (Steinmetz and Engler, IBM European Networking Center)

Networking Issues

• ATM Concepts, Architectures, and Protocols (Ronald J. Vetter, CACM 38(2))
• Latency/Bandwidth Tradeoff in Gigabit Networks (Len Kleinrock, UCLA)
• Switching Facilities in MPEG-2: Necessary But Not Sufficient (S. Merrill Weiss, consultant)
• RSVP: A New Resource Reservation Protocol (Zhang et al., Xerox PARC and USC)
• A Scheme for Real-Time Channel Establishment in Wide-Area Networks (Ferrari and Verma, UCB Tenet)
• Growth Trends in Wide-Area TCP Connections (Vern Paxson, LBL)