Feedback techniques for continuity and synchronization in multimedia information retrieval
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Feedback Flow Control with Hysteresial Techniques for Multimedia Retrievals
Multimedia Tools and Applications
A low-latency lip-synchronized videoconferencing system
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A Group Synchronization Mechanism for Stored Media in Multicast Communications
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
NetGames '06 Proceedings of 5th ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Network and system support for games
An adaptive media playout for intra-media synchronization of networked-video applications
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
An RTP/RTCP based approach for multimedia group and inter-stream synchronization
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Smooth control of adaptive media playout for video streaming
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Principles of robust timing over the internet
Communications of the ACM
Accurate clock models for simulating Wireless Sensor Networks
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Sharing enriched multimedia experiences across heterogeneous network infrastructures
IEEE Communications Magazine
Are we in sync?: synchronization requirements for watching online video together.
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A more realistic rtp/rtcp-based simulation platform for video streaming QoS evaluation
Journal of Mobile Multimedia
Local-lag and timewarp: providing consistency for replicated continuous applications
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Content-Aware Adaptive Media Playout Controls for Wireless Video Streaming
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Human perception of jitter and media synchronization
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Intrastream synchronization for continuous media streams: a survey of playout schedulers
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Early event-driven (EED) RTCP feedback for rapid IDMS
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia
Design, development and evaluation of an adaptive and standardized RTP/RTCP-based IDMS solution
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia
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Newer social multimedia applications, such as Social TV or networked multi-player games, enable independent groups (or clusters) of users to interact among themselves and share services within the context of simultaneous media content consumption. In such scenarios, concurrently synchronized playout points must be ensured so as not to degrade the user experience on such interaction. We refer to this process as Inter-Destination Multimedia Synchronization (IDMS). This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of an evolved version of an RTCP-based IDMS approach, including an Adaptive Media Playout (AMP) scheme that aims to dynamically and smoothly adjust the playout timing of each one of the geographically distributed consumers in a specific cluster if an allowable asynchrony threshold between their playout states is exceeded. For that purpose, we previously had also to develop a full implementation of RTP/RTCP protocols for NS-2, in which we included the IDMS approach as an optional functionality. Simulation results prove the feasibility of such IDMS and AMP proposals, by adopting several dynamic master reference selection policies, to maintain an overall synchronization status (within allowable limits) in each cluster of participants, while minimizing the occurrence of long-term playout discontinuities (such as skips/pauses) which are subjectively more annoying and less tolerable to users than small variations in the media playout rate.