Adaptation Inside Media Delivery Infrastructure

• "Packet Scheduling of Streaming Video with Flexible Reference Frame using Dynamic Programming and Integer Rounding," Gene Cheung, Wai-tian Tan Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo., Toronto, Canada, July 2006.

• "A Novel Design to Support Internet Streaming via Web Servers," Song-qing Chen, Bo Shen, Wai-tian Tan, Susie Wee, Xiaodong Zhang Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo., Toronto, Canada, July 2006.

• "Real-time Video Transport Optimization using Streaming Agent over 3G Wireless Network," Gene Cheung, Wai-tian Tan, Takeshi Yoshimura, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol-7, No-4, pp 777-785, August 2005.

• "Enterprise Streaming: Different Challenges from Internet Streaming," John Apostolopoulos, Mitchell Trott, Ton Kalker, Wai-tian Tan, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2005.

• "Admission Control in the Presence of Background TCP Traffic," Leonidas Kontothanassis and Wai-tian Tan, Proc. of 2nd IASTED International Conference on Communication and Computer Networks (CCN), Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2004.

• "Graphics-to-Video Encoding for 3G Mobile Game Viewer Multicast Using Depth Values," Gene Cheung, Takashi Sakamoto, Wai-tian Tan, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Singapore, October 2004.

• "Double Feedback Streaming Agent for Real-time Delivery of Media over 3G Wireless Networks," Gene Cheung, Wai-tian Tan and Takeshi Yoshimura, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol-6, No-2, pp 304-314, April 2004.

• "Research and Design Challenges for Mobile Streaming Media Content Delivery Networks (MSM-CDNs)," Susie Wee, John Apostolopoulos, Wai-tian Tan, Sumit Roy, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2003. (invited paper).

• "Low-latency Wireless Video over 802.11 Networks using Path Diversity," Allen Miu, John Apostolopoulos, Wai-tian Tan, Mitch Trott, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Balitmore, Maryland, July 2003.

• "Playback-Buffer Equalization for Streaming Media using Stateless Transport Prioritization," Wai-tian Tan, Weidong Cui, John Apostolopoulos, Proc. Packet Video Workshop, Nantes, France, April 2003.

• "Effect of Network Uncertainty on the Design of a Multiple Description Streaming Media Content Delivery Network," John Apostolopoulos, Wai-tian Tan, Susie Wee, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, New York, September 2002.

• "On Multiple Description Streaming with Content Delivery Networks," John Apostolopoulos, Tina Wong, Wai-tian Tan, Susie Wee, Proc. IEEE Infocom, New York, New York, June 2002.

• "Modeling Path Diversity for Multiple Description Video Communication," John Apostolopoulos, Wai-tian Tan, Susie Wee, Gregory Wornell, Proc. International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Orlando, Florida, May 2002.

Optimized Video Streaming

• "Using SP-Frames for Error Resilience in Optimized Video Streaming," Wai-tian Tan, Gene Cheung, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Atlanta, GA, October 2006. [pdf]

• "Methods to Improve Coding Efficiency of SP Frames," Wai-tian Tan, Bo Shen, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Atlanta, GA, October 2006. [pdf]

• "SP-Frame Selection for Video Streaming over Burst-loss Networks," Wai-tian Tan, Gene Cheung, Proc. IEEE Int. Sym. Multimedia, Irvine, California, December 2005.

• "Rate-Distortion Hint-tracks for Adaptive Video Streaming," Jakov Chakareski, John Apostolopoulos, Susie Wee, Wai-tian Tan, Bern Girod, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol-15, no-10, pp 1257-1269, October 2005.

• "Accurate Distortion-driven Macroblock Level Rate Control via rho-domain Analysis," Wai-tian Tan, Bo Shen, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy, September 2005.

• "Loss-Compensated Reference Frame Optimization for Multi-path Video Streaming," Gene Cheung, Wai-tian Tan, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2005.

• "Reference Frame Optimization for Multi-path Video Streaming using Complexity Scaling," Gene Cheung, Wai-tian Tan, Proc. Packet Video Workshop, Irvine, California, December 2004.

• "Optimized Video Streaming Strategies for Networks with Varying Delay," Susie Wee, Wai-tian Tan, John Apostolopoulos, Minoru Etoh, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2002.

• "Directed Acyclic Graph Based Source Modeling for Data Unit Selection of Streaming Media over QoS Networks," Gene Cheung, Wai-tian Tan, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2002.

Book Chapters

• "Disruptive Technology and Their Effect on Global Telecommunication," Stan McClellan, Stephen Low and Wai-tian Tan, Chapter in "Advances in Computers," Vol-61, Academic Press 2004.

• "Video Streaming: Concepts, Algorithms, and Systems," John Apostolopoulos, Wai-tian Tan, and Susie Wee, Chapter in "Handbook of Video Databases, Design and Applications," CRC Press 2004.

Earlier Works on Video Streaming using End-point Adaptations

• "Video Multicast using Layered FEC and Scalable Compression," Wai-Tian Tan, Avideh Zakhor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol-11, No-3, pp 373-386, March 2001.

• "Real-time Internet Video Using Error Resilient Scalable Compression and TCP-friendly Transport Protocol," Wai-tian Tan and Avideh Zakhor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol-1, No-2, pp 172-186, June 1999.

Other Non-multimedia Research

• "Design and Implementation of an Extrusion-based Break-in Detector for Personal Computers," Weidong Cui, Randy Katz, Wai-tian Tan, Proc. 21st Annual Computer Security Applications Conf, Tucson, Arizona, December, 2005.

• "BINDER: An Extrusion-based Break-in Detector for Personal Computers," Weidong Cui, Randy Katz, Wai-tian Tan, Proc. 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Anaheim, California, April 2005.