A Pseudo-Infinite Multimedia Storage System

Despite the ever-growing sizes of disks, multimedia files (e.g., videos) promise to quickly consume all such space and demand more. In this project we investigate ways to store nearly infinite amounts of multimedia files on a given storage system. This is achieved by successively re-encoding video files to lower bit-rates, smaller resolutions, and other parameters --- thus reducing the sizes of these files while minimizing user-perceived reduction in quality. A set of policies controls which files will get their size reduced, or even deleted, based on user preferences, frequency and recency of viewing, and more.

Current Students:

#	Name (click for home page)	Program	Member Since
1	Vinay Pai	PhD	Sep 2007

Past Students:

#	Name (click for home page)	Program	Period	Current Location
1	Charles P. Wright	PhD	May 2003 - May 2006	Research Staff Member, Network Server Systems Software group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (Hawthorne, NY)
2	Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy	MS	Jan 2002 - May 2004	Harvard University CS Ph.D. program (Cambridge, MA)

(Last updated: Wed Oct 3 11:56:09 EDT 2007)