NSF Proposal on Center for
Global Multimedia Mobile Communications


Backbone Infrastructure Computer Networks

Optical Infrastructure
Tom DeFanti (UIC)
Joe Mambretti (NU)
Transport Control of Multimedia Data over Wireless Networks
Bharat Bharghava (Purdue)

Low-Power Design of Domain Specific Architectures

High Performance Algorithms and Protocols for Multimedia
Processing and Communication over Wireless Networks

Ashfaq Khokhar (UIC)
Compiling Multimedia Applications to Reconfigurable Architectures
Prith Banerjee (UIC)

Models, Synthesis Algorithms, and Operating Systems for Low-Power Embedded Systems
Robert Dick (NU)

Using Semantic Information in Application-Specific Processors
Gokhan Memik (NU)
Domain-specific Low Power Embedded Reconfigurable Fabrics
Seda Ogrenci Memik (NU)

Speech and Video Processing

Efficient Resource Allocation for Packet-Based Video Transmission
Aggelos Katsaggelos (NU)

Feature-Rich Video Representations Based on Resolution
Scalability and Foveation

Rashid Ansari (UIC)
Real-Time Video Communications: Compression, Tracking, Retrieval, and Networking
Dan Schonfeld (UIC)
Loss Concealments for Voice, Image, and Audio Transmissions over IP Networks
Benjamin W. Wah (UIUC)

A Software Architecture for E2E Quality of Service Management
for Distributed Multimedia Applications

Arif Ghafoor (Purdue)
Formal Net-Based Modeling of Collaborating Software Components
Sol Shatz (UIC)

Visualization & Display/Capture Devices

Future Generation Multimedia Collaboration Systems
Jason Leigh (UIC)
Advances in Haptically Enhanced Visualization Systems
Pat Banerjee (UIC)

A Framework for the Dynamic Presentation of Fused Multimedia Databases
Isabel Cruz (UIC)

Wireless Communications & Networks

Reinforcement Learning Approach to Call Admission Control in Future Multimedia Wireless Networks
Derong Liu (UIC)
Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Networks
Yingwei Yao (UIC)

Global Wireless Optical Grid Network to support Ubiquitous
Multimedia Communications

Oliver Yu (UIC)

Multimedia Communications Applications & Prototypes

Very High Broadband Data Rates Throughput: Reality vs. Myth
Gerry Labedz (Motorola)

Curriculum on a Chip
Patrick Lysaght (Xilinx)

Visual Communications & Displays
George Valliath (Motorola)