Research Topics


A High-level Discussion of the UCLA Multimedia Communications and Systems Lab Research Focus click here
Strategic Learning and Heterogeneous Knowledge in Multi-agent Communication Systems click here
Wireless Multimedia Communication and Networking
  • Game-theoretic Approaches (Mechanism Design, Coalition Theory, Dynamic Games, Multi-agent Learning) to Dynamic Resource Management for Multi-user Delay-sensitive Transmission over Cognitive Radio Networks
  • Game-theoretic Analysis of Multi-user Interactions in Cognitive Radio Networks
  • Delay-constrained Multi-user Wireless Transmission
  • Multi-user Cross-layer Wireless Multimedia Communications using Resource and Information Exchanges
  • Fairness Paradigms for Wireless Media using Game-theory (Bargaining Theory)
  • Congestion Games for Delay-sensitive Transmission over Multi-hop Mesh Networks
  • Multimedia Networking and Real-time Streaming Architectures, Queuing Models for Media Streaming
  • Incentives for Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Systems, Non-collaborative and Collaborative Multimedia Compression and Communication over Resource-constraint Wireless Systems


Multimedia Systems
  • Dynamic Resource Management for Multimedia Applications on Embedded Systems and Multi-processor systems
  • Complexity Modeling for Multimedia Streaming Applications
  • Distortion and Power Optimized Multimedia Systems
  • Formal Methods for Designing and Optimizing Multimedia Compression and Processing Algorithms on Resource-constrained Systems
  • Fairness Paradigms for Wireless Media using Game-theory (Bargaining Theory)
  • Middleware Design for Decentralized Resource Management in Multi-processor Systems
  • Fairness Paradigms for Multi-task Processing


Multimedia Compression, Modeling, Processing
  • Scalable Video Coding
  • MPEG-4 Fine Granularity Scalability
  • Motion-compensated Wavelet Video Coding
  • Complexity-constrained Multimedia Compression
  • Rate-distortion Models for Operational Wavelet Video Coders
  • Secure Multimedia Compression
  • Content-aware Spatio-temporal Processing and Compression
  • Complexity-constrained Data Mining Applications