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.

Journal Articles:

#	Title (click for html version)	Formats	Published In	Date	Comments
1	Token Stealing: A Pairwise Incentive Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Streaming		TBA	Apr 2011	Under review

Past Students:

#	Name (click for home page)	Program	Period	Current Location
1	Vinay Pai	PhD	Sep 2007 - May 2011	Founder and CEO, MuCash, Inc. (New York, NY)
2	Charles P. Wright	PhD	May 2003 - May 2006	Software Developer, Eladian Partners, LLC (New York, NY)
3	Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy	MS	Jan 2002 - May 2004	Harvard University CS Ph.D. program (Cambridge, MA)

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