Behavior Modeling and Forensics for Multimedia Social Networks

dc.contributor.advisorLiu, K.J. Rayen_US
dc.contributor.authorLin, Wan-Yien_US
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-06T06:22:21Z
dc.date.available2009-10-06T06:22:21Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractWithin the past decades, the explosive combination of multimedia signal processing, communications and networking technologies has facilitated the sharing of digital multimedia data and enabled pervasive digital media distribution over all kinds of networks. People involved in the sharing and distribution of multimedia contents form \emph{multimedia social networks} in which users share and exchange multimedia content, as well as other resources. Users in a multimedia social network have different objectives and influence each other's decision and performance. It is of ample importance to understand how users interact with and respond to each other and analyze the impact of human factors on multimedia systems. This thesis illustrates various aspects of issues and problems in multimedia social networks via two case studies of human behavior in multimedia fingerprinting and peer-to-peer live streaming. Since media security and content protection is a major issue in current multimedia systems, this thesis first studies the user dynamics of multimedia fingerprinting social networks. We investigate the side information which improves the traitor-tracing performance and provide the optimal strategies for both users (fingerprint detector and the colluders) in the multimedia fingerprinting social network. Furthermore, before a collusion being successfully mounted, the colluders must be stimulated to cooperate with each other and all colluders have to agree on the attack strategy. Therefore, not all types of collusion are possible. We reduce the possible collusion set by analyzing the incentives and bargaining behavior among colluders. We show that the optimal strategies designed based on human behavior can provide more information to the fingerprint detector and effectively improve the collusion resistance. The second part of this thesis focuses on understanding modelling and analyzing user dynamics for users in various types of peer-to-peer live streaming social networks. We stimulate user cooperation by designing the optimal, cheat-proof, and attack-resistant strategies for peer-to-peer live streaming social networks over Internet as well as wireless networks. Also, as more and more smart-phone users subscribe to the live-streaming service, a reasonable market price has to be set to prevent the users from reselling the live video. We start from analyzing the equilibrium between the users who want to resell the video and the potential buyers to provide the optimal price for the content owner.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/9597
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Electronics and Electricalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledfingerprintingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmultimediaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial networken_US
dc.titleBehavior Modeling and Forensics for Multimedia Social Networksen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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