Invited Talk: "Opportunistic Multimedia to Vehicles"

Abstract
Drivers and passengers are interested in downloading multimedia content that is relevant to the local area and to the destination. In additions, they are interested in watching popular TV programs. Finally, there is multimedia content that may be relevant to traffic and road conditions ahead. The traditional approach is for each car to download the content individually from the Internet. As the spectrum becomes scarce, it becomes necessary to share access among multiple users. In this talk we describe Car/Code Torrent, a method for opportunistic sharing of video downloads among vehices.

Bio
Dr. Mario Gerla is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at UCLA. He holds the Engineering degree from Politecnico di Milano, Italy and the Ph.D. degree from UCLA. He became IEEE Fellow in 2002. At UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the early ARPANET protocols under the guidance of Prof. Leonard Kleinrock. He joined the UCLA Faculty in 1976. At UCLA he has designed network protocols for ad hoc wireless networks (ODMRP and CODECast) and Internet transport (TCP Westwood). He has lead the ONR MINUTEMAN project, designing the next generation scalable airborne Internet for tactical and homeland defense scenarios. His team is developing a Vehicular Testbed for safe navigation, content distribution, urban sensing and intelligent transport. He serves on the IEEE TON Scientific Advisory Board. He was recently recognized with the annual MILCOM Technical Contribution Award (2011) and the IEEE Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Society Achievement Award (2011).


IEEE NIME'13 PROGRAM
The workshop will be held on July 15st, 2013 in room VALLEY of The Fairmont San Jose
The complete program of the workshop can be found here in pdf and in the following.

09:00 - 9:45 NIME K1 - Chair: Prof. Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna, Italy)
- Keynote Speech: Professor Mario Gerla (UCLA) - "Opportunistic Multimedia to Vehicles"

9:50 - 10:10 BREAK

10:15 - 11:45 NIME F1 - Chair: Prof. A. El Rhalibi (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
- “Listening to Unanimated Objects’ Stories for Treatment and Repair: A Computer Vision Approach”, Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna), Alessandro Amoroso (University of Bologna), Cristian Bertuccioli (University of Bologna), Andrea Marcomini (University of Bologna), Gustavo Marfia (University of Bologna), Giovanni Matteucci (University of Bologna)
- “Evaluating Design Constraints for Proximity-Based Games on a Real Urban Topology”, Dario Maggiorini (University of Milano), Laura Ripamonti (University of Milano), Armir Bujari (University of Padua), Claudio Palazzi (University of Padova)
- “Performance Control over heterogeneous receivers for video multicast”, Hang Zhang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Koushik Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), John Woods (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH

13:00 - 14:45 NIME F2 - Chairs: Prof. Alessandro Amoroso (University of Bologna, Italy)
- “A Novel Scalable Hybrid Architecture for MMOG”, Christopher Carter (Liverpool John Moores University), Abdennour El Rhalibi (Liverpool John Moores University), Madjid Merabti (Liverpool John Moores University)
- “From a physical system to a pervasive solution to increase people physical activity: Is it possible?”, Matteo Ciman (University of Padova), Ombretta Gaggi (University of Padova)
- “Supporting Cultural Emotional Browsing for Museums: The Versoverdi App”, Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna), Gustavo Marfia (University of Bologna, IT), Cristian Bertuccioli (University of Bologna), Andrea Marcomini (University of Bologna), Marco Zanichelli (OndeComunicazione), Angelo Varni (University of Bologna)

14:50 - 15:00 BREAK

15:00 - 17:00 NIME R1- Chairs: Prof. Claudio Palazzi (University of Padua, Italy)
- “A Twofold Approach to Object and Avatar Data Management in P2P-Based Virtual Environments”, Maha Abdallah (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6), Eliya Buyukkaya (Enssat, University of Rennes 1)
- “Like Vehicles Like Pedestrians, in an Interconnected World”, Alessandro Amoroso (University of Bologna), Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna), Gustavo Marfia (University of Bologna, IT)
- “Addressing Responsiveness in Interactive, Pervasive Games”, Ani Nahapetian (California State University), Davit Stepanyan (California State University, Northridge)
- “Embedded Key Frame Extraction in UGC Scenarios”, Alexandro Sentinelli (ST Microelectronics), Luca Celetto (ST Microelectronics), Gustavo Marfia (University of Bologna, IT), Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna)
- “Fast Image Resizing for more Efficient Device Adaptation”, Ali Ajorian (IUT), Shadrokh Samavi (McMaster University), Majid Mohrehkesh (IUT), Shahram Shirani (McMaster University)
- “Geo-Anchored Floating Data for Mobile Users”, Armir Bujari (University of Padua), Claudio Palazzi (University of Padova), Henklajd Sadushi (University of Padua), Dario Maggiorini (University of Milano), Laura Ripamonti (University of Milano)

17:00 NIME B1- Chairs: Prof. A. El Rhalibi (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
- Best Paper Award Ceremony and Workshop Closure