[AG-TECH] Question about Codec

[Ivan R. Judson]

Larry, you forgot one point -- the code is in the existing mash cvs repo, in
mash\tcl\(mega, megafor, and megatest)!  This would be a great project for
someone to get it running and then figure out how we can integrate it to
provide more capabilities so our describing and matching work can move ahead
quickly :-)
--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Lawrence A. Rowe
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 6:51 PM
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Question about Codec
> 
> 
> Hi -
> 
> if anyone is doing this, be sure to look at elan amir's 
> dissertation work.  sadly, i do not know of a pointer to an 
> on-line version, but he did write some papers.  and, OM has 
> the code for his MegaGateway
> (megagw) in it.  you are probably wondering what does it do?
> 
> well, you can configure the gateway to forward selected 
> streams across a bandwidth-limited link.  elan would run 
> vic/vat at home using an ISDN connection (symmetric 128Kbs) 
> and he could select which streams would be forwarded to his 
> home and which would not.  the gateway also did 
> prioritization of the audio stream over the video streams, 
> for obvious reasons.
> 
> now you are probably thinking, that's great, can i run it.  
> and the answer, as with nearly all OM projects done by 
> students, is only if you take the time to read/understand 
> something about the code and the way the apps work.  i don't 
> recall their being documentation about the gateway and apps, 
> but there are some papers that elan published about the 
> models and algorithms.  here is the reference to the paper:
> > ---
> >   E. Amir, S. McCanne, R. H. Katz, "The Media Gateway 
> Architecture: A 
> > Prototype for Active Services," ACM SIGCOMM'98 Conference, 
> Vancouver, 
> > Canada, (September 1998).
> > ---
> i'm sure you can find other reference by googling it.
> 	Larry
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