2006

• The Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Multicast Session Layer
  A. Swan
  PhD Dissertation, Computer Science Division - EECS, U.C. Berkeley, December 2006.

2004

• Aspen: A Multicast Session Layer
  A. Swan and L.A. Rowe
  Open Mash Consortium, TR 2004-169, March 2004.

• INDIVA: Middleware for Managing a Distributed Media Environment
  W.T. Ooi, P. Pletcher, and L.A. Rowe
  SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking January 2004.

2003

• The Case for a Multicast Session Layer
  A. Swan and L.A. Rowe
  Open Mash Consortium, TR 2003-168, July 2003.

2002

• Access Grid Technology Development
  L.A. Rowe and J.A. Blasney
  Proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation, June 2002.
  (Rejected September 2002)
  

• Implementation of a Real-Time Software-only Image Smoothing Filter for a Block-transform Video Codec
  W.F. Miaw and L.A. Rowe
  Image and Video Communications and Processing, IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, January 2003
  

• INDIVA: Distributed Streaming Media and Equipment Control Middleware
  L.A. Rowe, W.T. Ooi, and P. Pletcher
  Open Mash Consortium, TR 2002-163, April 2002
  

• Distributed Streaming Media Application Middleware
  L.A. Rowe
  Proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation, March 2002.
  (Rejected July 2002)
  

• Webcast and Distributed Collaboration Control Automation
  L.A. Rowe
  Proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation, February 2002.
  (Rejected August 2002)
  

• Virtual Director: Automating a Webcast
  E. Machnicki and L.A. Rowe
  SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking, January 2002
  

2001

• Production Quality Internet Television
  M.R. Delco
  Open Mash Consortium, TR 2001-161, August 2001
  

• Streaming Media Middleware is more than Streaming Media
  L.A. Rowe
  International Workshop on Multimedia Middleware, October 2001
  

• dc: A Live Webcast Control System
  T.P. Yu, D. Wu, K. Meyer-Patel, and L.A. Rowe
  SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking, January 2001.
  

2000

• Soft ARQ for Layered Streaming Media
  Matthew Podolsky, Steven McCanne, and Martin Vetterli
  Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image and Video Technology, Special Issue on Multimedia Signal Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, April 2000.
  
  
• RMX: Reliable Multicast in Heterogeneous Networks
  Yatin Chawathe, Steven McCanne, and Eric Brewer
  Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2000.
  Available as gzip'd Postscript (268KB)
  
  
• An Evaluation of Preference Clustering in Large-Scale Multicast Applications
  Tina Wong, Randy Katz, and Steven McCanne
  Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2000.
  Available as gzip'd Postscript (161KB)
  

1999

• A Distributed Recording System for High Quality MBone Archives
  Angela Schuett, Randy H. Katz and Steven McCanne
  Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication, (NGC '99), Pisa, Italy, November 1999.
  Available as Postscript (610 kB)
  
  
• A Preference Clustering
  Protocol for Large-Scale Multicast ApplicationsTina Wong, Randy H. Katz and Steven McCanne
  Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication, (NGC '99), Pisa, Italy, November 1999.
  Available as gzip'd Postscript (130 kB)
  
  
• Dynamic Memory Model Based Framework for Optimization of IP Address Lookup Algorithms
  Gene Cheung and Steven McCanne
  ICNP'99, November, 1999.
  Available as Postscript
  
  
• Multicast Control Scheme for Parallel Software-only Video Effects Processing
  K. Mayer-Patel and L.A. Rowe.
  Proceedings of the Seventh Annual ACM International Multimedia Conference, October 1999.
  
  
• Scaling End-to-end Multicast Transports with a Topologically Sensitive Group Formation Protocol
  Sylvia Ratnasamy and Steven McCanne
  ICNP'99, November, 1999.
  Available as Postscript
  
  
• A RTCP-based Retransmission Protocol for Unicast RTP Streaming Multimedia
  Matthew Podolsky, Koichi Yano, and Steven McCanne
  Internet draft, work in progress, October 1999.
  Available as Text (18KB) and IETF presentation slides Powerpoint (88KB)
  
  
• A Document-based Framework for Internet Application Control
  Todd Hodes and Randy H. Katz
  Proceedings of the Second USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '99), Boulder, CO, October 1999.
  Available as gzip'd Postscript (75 kB)
  
  
• An Attribute Grammar Based Framework for Machine Dependent Computational Optimizations of Media Processing Algorithms
  Gene Cheung and Steven McCanne
  ICIP'99, October, 1999.
  Available as Postscript
  
  
• A Model, Analysis, and Protocol Framework for Soft State-based Communication
  Suchitra Raman and Steven McCanne
  Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '99, Cambridge, MA, September 1999.
  Best Student Paper Award.
  Available as gzip'd Postscript (156 KB)
  
  
• Inference of Multicast Routing Trees and Bottleneck Bandwidths using End-to-end Measurements
  Sylvia Ratnasamy and Steven McCanne
  Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'99, New York, USA, March 1999.
  Available as Postscript
  
  
• Search Party: Using Randomcast for Reliable Multicast with Local Recovery
  Adam M. Costello and Steven McCanne
  Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'99, New York, USA, March 1999.
  Available as gzip'd PostScript (60 kB)
  
  
• Software Synthesis of Variable-length Code Decoder using a Mixture of Programmed Logic and Table Lookups Algorithms
  Gene Cheung, Steven McCanne, and Christos Papadimitriou
  DCC'99, March, 1999.
  Available as Postscript
  
  
• Shared Remote Control of a Video Conferencing Application: Motivation, Design, and Implementation
  Todd Hodes, Mark Newman, Steven McCanne, Randy H. Katz, and James Landay
  Proceedings of SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking, San Jose, CA, January 1999, pp.17-28.
  Available as gzip'd Postscript (296 KB)
  
  
• Exploiting Spatial Parallelism for Software-only Video Effects Processing
  K. Mayer-Patel and L.A. Rowe.
  SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking, January 1999.
  
  
• An Internet MBone Broadcast Management System
  D.Wu, A. Swan, and L.A. Rowe.
  SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking, January 1999.

1998

• Limited Retransmission of Real-time Layered Multimedia.
  Matthew Podolsky, Martin Vetterli, and Steven McCanne
  Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing Society Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Los Angeles, CA, December 1998.
  
  
• Soft ARQ for Layered Streaming Media
  Matthew Podolsky, Steven McCanne, and Martin Vetterli
  UCB/CSD Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-98-1024, November 1998.
  
  
• Tunable Reliable Multicast for Periodic Information Dissemination
  Tina Wong, Thomas Henderson, Suchitra Raman, Adam Costello, and Randy Katz
  Proceedings of WOSBIS, Dallas, TX, October 1998.
  Available as gzip'd PostScript (710 kB)
  Also, journal version as gzip'd PostScript (2.3 MB)
  
  
• Exploiting Temporal Parallelism For Software-only Video Effects Processing
  K. Mayer-Patel and L.A. Rowe. 
  Proceedings of The Sixth Annual ACM Intl. Multimedia Conference, September 1998.
  
  
• A Proxy Architecture for Reliable Multicast in Heterogeneous Environments
  Yatin Chawathe, Steve Fink, Steven McCanne, and Eric Brewer
  Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '98, Bristol, UK, September 1998.
  Available as PostScript (1.04 MB)
  
  
• Scalable Data Naming for Application Level Framing in Reliable Multicast
  Suchitra Raman and Steven McCanne
  Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '98, Bristol, UK, September 1998.
  Available as PostScript (470 kB)
  
  
• Layered Transmission and Caching for the Multicast Session Directory Service
  Andrew Swan, Steven McCanne, and Lawrence A. Rowe
  Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '98, Bristol, UK, September 1998.
  Best Student Paper Award.
  
  
• An Active Service Infrastructure for Real-time Conferencing
  Yatin Chawathe, Angela Schuett, Elan Amir, Steve Fink, Todd Hodes, Andrew Huang, Suchitra Raman, Cynthia Romer, Andrew Swan, Tina Wong, Kristin Wright, Steven McCanne, and Randy Katz
  Demonstration in the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '98, Bristol, UK, September 1998.
  Available as PostScript (183 kB)
  
  
• Inexpensive Techniques for Enhancing Awareness of Participants in Internet Conferencing Tools
  Tina Wong, and The MASH Research Group
  Demonstration in the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '98, Bristol, UK, September 1998.
  Available as PostScript (183 kB)
  
  
• An Active Service Framework and its Application to Real-time Multimedia Transcoding
  Elan Amir, Steven McCanne, and Randy Katz.
  Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM '98, Vancouver, British Columbia, September 1998.
  Best Student Paper Award.
  Available as: PostScript (245 kB).
  
  
• A Soft-state Protocol for Accessing Multimedia Archives
  Angela Schuett, Suchitra Raman, Yatin Chawathe, Steven McCanne, and Randy Katz.
  Proceedings of 8th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support
  for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 98), Cambridge, UK, July 1998.
  Available as: PDF (167 KB), PostScript (1.3 MB), HTML/Powerpoint Slides
  
  
• Asymptotic Behavior of Global Recovery in SRM
  Suchitra Raman, Steven McCanne, and Scott Shenker
  Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98, Madison, WI, USA, June 1998.
  Available as: PostScript (633 kB).
  
  
• Simulation of FEC-Based Error Control for Packet Audio on the Internet
  Matthew Podolsky, Cynthia Romer, and Steven McCanne.
  Proceedings of INFOCOM '98, San Francisco, CA, Mar 1998.
  Available as: PostScript (235 kB).
  
  
• A Software-Only Video Production Switcher for the Internet MBone
  Tina H. Wong, K. Mayer-Patel, David Simpson and L.A. Rowe. 
  SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking, January 1998.

1997

• Receiver-driven Bandwidth Adaptation for Light-weight Sessions
  Elan Amir, Steven McCanne, and Randy Katz.
  Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '97, Seattle, WA, Nov 1997.
  Best Student Paper Award.
  Available as: PostScript (284 kB).
  
  
• Floor Control for Large-Scale MBone Seminars
  R. Malpani and L.A. Rowe.
  Proceedings of The Fifth Annual ACM International Multimedia Conference, November 1997.
  
  
• Composable Ad-hoc Mobile Services for Universal Interaction
  Todd Hodes, Randy Katz, E. Servan-Schreiber, Lawrence Rowe.
  Proceedings of The Third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing Budapest, Hungary, September, 1997.
  Best Student Paper award.
  
  
• An Internet MBone Broadcast Management System
  Andrew Swan and L.A. Rowe
  Master's Thesis, June 1997.
  
  
• Toward a Common Infrastructure for Multimedia-Networking Middleware
  Steven McCanne, Eric Brewer, Randy Katz, Lawrence Rowe, Elan Amir, Yatin Chawathe, Alan Coopersmith, Ketan Mayer-Patel, Suchitra Raman, Angela Schuett, David Simpson, Andrew Swan, Teck-Lee Tung, David Wu, Brian Smith.
  In Proc. 7th Intl. Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '97), St. Louis, Missouri, May 1997.
  Invited Paper.
  
  
• Design and Performance of the Berkeley Continuous Media Toolkit
  K. Mayer-Patel and L.A. Rowe.
  in Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997, Martin Freeman, Paul Jardetzky, Harrick M. Vin, Editors, Proc. SPIE 3020, pp 194-206 (1997).
  
  

1996

• Full-motion Video for Portable Multimedia Terminals
  Allan Christian Long, Jr.
  Masters Project Report, CSD-97-953, July 15, 1997.
  
  
• Compressed Domain Processing of JPEG-encoded Images
  Brian Smith and L.A. Rowe.
  Real-Time Imaging, Vol 2, pp 3-17 (1996).
  

1995

• Extending Tcl for Dynamic Object-Oriented Programming
  D. Wetherrall and C.J. Lindblad.
  Proceedings of the Tcl/Tk Workshop 95, Toronto, Ontario, July 1995.
  

1994

• MPEG Video in Software: Representation, Transmission and Playback
  L.A. Rowe, K. Patel, Brian Smith, K. Liu,
  Proc. of IS&T/SPIE 1994 Int'l Symp. on Elec. Imaging: Science and Technology, San Jose, CA, February 1994. 
  
  
• Continuous Media Applications
  L.A. Rowe,
  Multipoint Workshop held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 1994, San Francisco, CA, November 1994.
  

1993

• Tcl Distributed Programming,
  Brian Smith, L.A. Rowe, and S. Yen,
  Proceedings Tcl 1993 Workshop, Berkeley, CA, June 1993. 
  
  
• A Tcl/Tk Continuous Media Player,
  Brian Smith, L.A. Rowe, and S. Yen,
  Proceedings Tcl 1993 Workshop, Berkeley, CA, June 1993. 
  
  
• Performance of a Software MPEG Video Decoder,
  L.A. Rowe, K. Patel and Brian Smith,
  Proc. ACM Multimedia 93, Anaheim, CA, August 1993. 
  
  
• Algorithms for Manipulating Compressed Images
  Brian Smith and L.A. Rowe,
  Computer Graphics and Applications Vol 13, No 5, pp 34-42, September 1993. 
  
  

1992

• A Continuous Media Player,
  L.A. Rowe and B.C. Smith,
  Proc. 3rd Int. Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video, San Diego, CA, November 1992. Also appears in Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science #712, pp 376-386, 1993.

Ph.D. Theses/Masters' Reports

• K. Meyer-Patel
  A Parallel Software-Only Video Effects Processing System
  PhD Dissertation, Computer Science, U.C. Berkeley, December 1999.
  
  
• Sylvia Ratnasamy
  Scaling Multicast Transports through End-to-end Topology Discovery (April 99)
  Available as: Postscript.
  
  
• Elan Amir
  An Agent-based Approach to Real-time Multimedia Transmission over Heterogeneous Environments (June 98)
  Available as: gzip'd PostScript (612 kB)
  
  
• Suchitra Raman
  Design and Analysis of a Framework for Reliable Multicast (June 98)
  Available as: gzip'd PostScript (157 kB)
  
  
• Tecklee Tung
  MediaBoard: A Shared Whiteboard Application for the MBone (January 98)
  Available as: PostScript (684 kB)
  
  
• Cynthia Romer
  A Composable Architecture for scripting Multimedia Network Applications (July 98)
  DRAFT available as: gzip'd PostScript (2.1 MB)

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