Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 20:22:38 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5.2 Last-modified: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 21:27:12 GMT Content-type: text/html Content-length: 6651 Klara Nahrstedt

Klara Nahrstedt

3111 Digital Computer Laboratory
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 244-6624
(217) 333-3501- fax
klara@cs.uiuc.edu

Administrative help:

Teaching Multimedia Courses:

  • Selected Topics in Multimedia Communication (Fall 1995) - CS497
  • Multimedia Computing Systems (Spring 1996) - CS397
  • Resource Management For Video Traffic in High-Speed Networks (Fall 1996 - seminar) CS491

    Teaching System Courses:

  • Operating System Design (Fall 1996) - CS323

    Areas of Research Interest:

  • Communication Networks: Quality of Service Support, Real-Time Protocols, Network Management, Guaranteed Services, Pricing, Dynamic Connection Management
  • Real-Time Systems: Resource Management, Scheduling, Languages
  • Multimedia Distributed Systems and Applications: Multimedia Document Architectures, Visualization of Quality of Service, Authoring Systems, Security

    Publications:

    Books:

    Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt, "Multimedia: Computing, Communications, and Applications" Prentice Hall, July 1995

    Book Chapters:

  • Klara Nahrstedt and Jonathan Smith, "A Service Kernel for Multimedia Endpoints" , in
    Multimedia: Advanced Teleservices and High-Speed Communication Architectures, Ralf Steinmetz (editor), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS-868, 1994, Section I., pp. 8-22,

  • Klara Nahrstedt, Ralf Steinmetz, ``Resource Management in Multimedia Networked Systems'' in
    Handbook of Multimedia Networking, Jim Cavanagh (editor), Auerbach Publications, 1995, Chapter 7.3, pp. 381-405

    Journal/Magazine Publications:

    Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, "The QoS Broker", IEEE Multimedia, Spring 1995, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 53-67

    Klara Nahrstedt, Ralf Steinmetz "Resource Management in Multimedia Networked Systems", IEEE Computer, pp. 52-64, May 1995

    Klara Nahrstedt, " End-to-End QoS Guarantees in Networked Multimedia Systems", ACM Computing Surveys Journal, December 1995
    Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, " Design, Implementation and Experiences with the OMEGA End-point Architercture", IEEE JSAC, September 1996

    Conference Publications:

    Lintian Qiao and Klara Nahrstedt, " Lip Synchronization within an Adaptive VOD ", accepted to International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking , February 1996, San Jose

    Hao Chu, Klara Nahrstedt " Dynamic Multi-Path Communication for Video Traffic ", accepted to HICSS'97, January, 1997, Hawai

    Ian R. Philp, Klara Nahrstedt, Jane W. S. Liu "Scheduling and Buffer Management for Soft Real-Time VBR Traffic in Packet Switched Networks ", accepted to LNC'96, September, 1996, Minneapolis

    Klara Nahrstedt and Jonathan Smith, " New Algorithms for Admission Control and Scheduling to support Multimedia Feedback Remote Control Applications ", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Systems, Hiroshima, Japan, June 1996

    Klara Nahrstedt, Ashfaq Hossain and Sung-Mo Kang, " A Probe-based Algorithm for QoS Specification and Adaptation ", International Workshop on QoS, Paris, France, March, 1996

    Klara Nahrstedt and Jonathan Smith, "An Integrated Multimedia Architecture for High-Speed Networks", Multimedia '92 Conference, Monterey, CA, April 1992

    Klara Nahrstedt and Jonathan Smith, "An Application-Driven Approach to Multimedia Networks", 18th Conference LCN '93, Minneapolis, MN, September 1993

    Klara Nahrstedt and Jonathan Smith, "QoS Negotiation in a Robotics Environment", Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Applications and QoS Verification, Montreal, Canada, June 1994

    Recent Technical Reports:

    Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, "Experiment Study of End-to-End Issues", MS-CIS-94-08, DSL 76,University of Pennsylvania, February 1994

    Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, "End-Point Resource Admission Control for Remote Control Multimedia Applications", MS-CIS-95-18, University of Pennsylvania, April 1995

    Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, "Design, Implementation and Experiences of the OMEGA Architecture", MS-CIS-95-22, University of Pennsylvania, May 1995

    Klara Nahrstedt, "An Architecture for End-to-End Quality of Service Provision and its Experimental Validation", PhD Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, August 1995

    Klara Nahrstedt, Jonathan M. Smith, " End-to-End QoS Guarantees: Lessons Learned from OMEGA ", Report No. UIUCDCS-R-96-1957, UILU-ENG-96-1720, University of Illinois, May 1996.

    Klara Nahrstedt, Lintian Qiao, " Tuning System for Distributed Multimedia Applications", Report No. UIUCDCS-R-96-1958, UILU-ENG-96-1721, University of Illinois, May 1996.

    Links to UPenn server: currently available papers by Klara Nahrstedt (papers written until August 1995 at the University of Pennsylvania).

    Any comments send to klara@cs.uiuc.edu

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