This directory contains selected recent reports on research at the Multimedia Laboratory at UCSD. All files in this directory are in compressed postscript format. The papers/reports contained in this directory include:

 
1. P. Venkat Rangan
Research Contributions of the UCSD Multimedia Laboratory
File name: Contributions.ps (23966 bytes)

2. P. Venkat Rangan, Harrick M. Vin, and Srinivas Ramanathan 
Designing an On-Demand Multimedia Service
IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 56-65, July, 1992
File name: IEEEComm.ps (100851 bytes)

3. P. Venkat Rangan and Harrick M. Vin 
Designing File Systems for Digital Video and Audio
In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems
Principles (SOSP'91), Monterey, California, Operating Systems Review,
Vol. 25, No. 5, Pages 81-94, October 1991 
File name: SOSP91.ps (109737 bytes)

4. P. Venkat Rangan and Harrick M. Vin 
Efficient Storage Techniques for Digital Continuous Multimedia
To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge
and Data Engineering - Special Issue on Multimedia Information
Systems, August 1993 
File name: TKD.ps (138508 bytes)

5. Harrick M. Vin and P. Venkat Rangan 
Designing a Multi-User HDTV Storage Server
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications - Special Issue on High Definition Television and
Digital Video Communication, Vol. 11, No. 1, January 1993
File name: JSAC.ps (95085 bytes)

6. P. Venkat Rangan, Srinivas Ramanathan, Harrick M. Vin, and Thomas Kaeppner 
Techniques for Multimedia Synchronization in Network File Systems
Computer Communications Journal, March, 1993
File name: CompComm.ps (89585 bytes)

7. Srinivas Ramanathan and P. Venkat Rangan 
Feedback Techniques for Intra-Media Continuity and
Inter-Media Synchronization in Distributed Multimedia
Systems
The Computer Journal, Special Issue on Distributed
Multimedia Systems, February, 1993
File name: BCJ.ps (530666 bytes)

8. Srinivas Ramanathan and P. Venkat Rangan
Adaptive Feedback Techniques for Synchronized Multimedia Retrieval over 
Integrated Networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 1, No. 2, April, 1993
File: ToN2.ps (391319 bytes)

9. P. Venkat Rangan, H. M. Vin, and S. Ramanathan 
Communication Architectures and Algorithms for Media Mixing in
Multimedia Conferences
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 1,
No. 1, February 1993
File name: ToN1.ps (72775 bytes)

10. Harrick M. Vin, P. Venkat Rangan and Srinivas Ramanathan
Hierarchical Conferencing Architectures for Inter-Group
Multimedia Collaboration
In proceedings of Conference on Organizational Computing Systems,
November, 1991
File name: COCS91.ps (84731 bytes)

11. Srinivas Ramanathan, P. Venkat Rangan, Harrick M. Vin and Thomas Kaeppner 
Optimal Communication Architectures for Multimedia Conferencing in Distributed
Systems
In Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems, June, 1992
File name: ICDCS92.ps (100901 bytes)

12. Srinivas Ramanathan, P. Venkat Rangan, and Harrick M. Vin
Integrating Virtual Reality, Tele-Conferencing, and
Entertainment into Multimedia Home Computers
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 38, No.  2, May, 1992
File name: ConsElec.ps (50445 bytes)

13. Harrick M. Vin, P. Venkat Rangan, and M. S. Chen 
System Support for Computer Mediated Multimedia Collaborations
In proceedings of the 1992 ACM Conference on Computer
Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW'92), Toronto, Canada, Pages 203-209,
November 1-4, 1992 
File name: CSCW92.ps (45146 bytes)

14. P. Venkat Rangan and Harrick. M. Vin 
Multimedia Conferencing as A Universal Paradigm for Collaboration
In Multimedia - Principles, Systems, and Applications}, Chapter
14, Ed. Lars Kjelldahl, Springer-Verlag, April 1991 (Proceedings of 
Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia Systems, Applications, and Interaction}, 
Stockholm, Sweden)
File name: Sweden.ps (71167 bytes)

15. Srinivas Ramanathan, Harrick M. Vin, and P. Venkat Rangan
Towards Personalized Multimedia Dial-Up Services
To appear in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Special Issue on Multimedia,
1994.
File name: Isdn1.ps (110923 bytes)

16. Srinivas Ramanathan, P. Venkat Rangan, and Harrick M. Vin
Frame-Induced Packet Discarding: An Efficient Strategy for Video Networking
In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Network and 
Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, Lancaster, England,
November 1993.
File name: avconf93.ps (51958 bytes)

17. P. Venkat Rangan, Srinivas Ramanathan, and Thomas Kaeppner
Performance of Inter-Media Synchronization in Distributed and Heterogeneous
Multimedia Systems
To appear in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 1994
File name:  Isdn2.ps (129133 bytes)

In case of problems obtaining copies of any of the above mentioned files, please send e-mail to mm@cs.ucsd.edu.