Digital Rights Management

• Jin Li, Yi Cui, and Bin Chang, PeerStreaming: Design and Implementation of an On-Demand Distributed Streaming System with DRM Capabilities, Multimedia Systems Journal, 2007 [pdf].

• Taojun Wu, Liang Dai, Yuan Xue, and Yi Cui, Digital Rights Management for Video Sensor Network, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), San Diego, CA, December, 2006 [pdf].

Wireless Mesh Network

• Taojun Wu, Yi Cui, and Yuan Xue, Preserving Traffic Privacy in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Buffalo, NY, June, 2006 [pdf].

Overlay Multicast

• Yi Cui, Yuan Xue, and Klara Nahrstedt, Optimal Resource Allocation in Overlay Multicast, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2005 [pdf]. Note: a shorter version appeared in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Atlanta, GA, November, 2003. [ppt]

• Yi Cui, Baochun Li, and Klara Nahrstedt, On Achieving Optimized Capacity Utilization in Application Overlay Networks with Multiple Competing Sessions, in Proc. of ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), Barcelona, Spain, June, 2004 [pdf][ppt].

• Yi Cui, Yuan Xue, and Klara Nahrstedt, Max-min Overlay Multicast: Rate Allocation and Tree Construction, in Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IwQoS), Montreal, Canada, June, 2004 [pdf][ppt].

Content Distribution and Peer-to-Peer Streaming

• Liang Dai, Yi Cui, and Yuan Xue, Maximizing Throughput in Layered Peer-to-peer Streaming, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, UK, 2007.

• Liang Dai, Yi Cui, and Yuan Xue, On Scalability of Proximity-Aware P2P Streaming, IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Symposium, Anchorage, AL, May, 2007.

• Yi Cui and Klara Nahrstedt, High-Bandwidth Routing in Dynamic PeertoPeer Streaming, ACM workshop on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia
  Streaming, in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Singapore, November, 2005 [pdf].

• Yi Cui, Baochun Li, and Klara Nahrstedt, oStream: Asynchronous Streaming Multicast in Application-Layer Overlay Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Service Overlays, vol. 22, no. 1, 2004 [pdf].

• Yi Cui and Klara Nahrstedt, Proxy-based Asynchronous Multicast for Efficient On-demand Media Distribution, in Proc. of SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN), Santa Clara, CA, January, 2003 [pdf][ppt].

• Yi Cui and Klara Nahrstedt, Layered Peer-to-Peer Streaming, in Proc. of ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Monterey, CA, June, 2003 [pdf][ppt].

Service Delivery

• Klara Nahrstedt, Bin Yu, Jin Liang, and Yi Cui, Hourglass Content and Service Composition Framework for Pervasive Environments, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 1, no. 1, 2005 [pdf].

• Yi Cui, Klara Nahrstedt, and Dongyan Xu, Seamless User-level Handoff in Ubiquitous Multimedia Service Delivery, Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal (ACM/Kluwer), Special Issue on Mobile Multimedia and Communications and m-Commerce, vol. 22, no. 2, 2004 [pdf].

• Yi Cui and Klara Nahrstedt, Supporting QoS for Ubiquitous Multimedia Service Delivery, in Proc. of ACM Multimedia Doctoral Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, November, 2001 [ps][ppt].

• Yi Cui and Klara Nahrstedt, QoS-Aware Dependency Management for Component-Based Systems, in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), San Francisco, CA, August, 2001 [ps][ppt].

• Yi Cui, Dongyan Xu, and Klara Nahrstedt, SMART: A Scalable Middleware Solution for Ubiquitous Multimedia Service Delivery, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Tokyo, Japan, August, 2001 [pdf][ppt].

Wireless Sensor Network

• Yi Cui, Yuan Xue, and Klara Nahrstedt, A Utility-based Distributed Maximum Lifetime Routing Algorithm for Wireless Networks, invited to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Special Issue on Cross-layer Design in Mobile Ad hoc Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks, 2006 [pdf]. Note: an earlier version appeared in Proc. of International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (Qshine), Orlando, FL, August, 2005.

• Yuan Xue, Yi Cui, and Klara Nahrstedt, Maximizing Lifetime for Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks, to appear in ACM/Kluwer Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications, Special Issue on Energy Constraints and Lifetime Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005 [pdf].

Network Coding

• Yi Cui, Yuan Xue, and Klara Nahrstedt, Optimal Distributed Multicast Routing using Network Coding, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, UK, 2007.

3D Teleimmersion System

• Zhenyu Yang, Yi Cui, Zahid Anwar, Robert Bocchino, Nadir Kiyanclar, Klara Nahrstedt, Roy H. Campbell, William Yurcik, Real-Time 3D Video Compression for Tele-Immersive Environments, Proc. of SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking, Santa Clara, CA, January, 2006 [ps].

• Zhenyu Yang, Yi Cui, Bin Yu, Jin Liang, Klara Nshrstedt, Sang-Hack Jung and Ruzena Bajscy, TEEVE: The Next Generation Architecture for Tele-Immersive Environments, IMS 2005 [pdf].

PhD Dissertation

• Yi Cui, Content Distribution in Overlay Multicast, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September, 2005. [pdf].