Title : Three Problems in Confederated Media

In this talk, I will articulate a new model for thinking 
about the future of multimedia which I call "confederated 
media". One essential feature of future multimedia 
applications within a confederated media context is that 
applications are likely to be distributed over a number of 
different specialized devices that share resources in a 
local environment while transmitting and receiving a number 
of independent, but semantically related media streams. 
Remote 3D teleimmersion is an example of such an application 
and serves as a driving problem for our research. Within the 
confederated media model are a number of challenges and open 
research questions concerning application adaptation, 
network coordination, and media representation. The talk 
will provide a survey of my research group's efforts to 
address these problems. Specifically, I will describe our 
work on supporting multidimensional adaptation, video 
encoding of 3D scenes using multiple cameras, and fine-
grained protocol coordination and aggregate congestion 
control.