The ACM Multimedia 2021 Meet Deadline Requirements Grand Challenge

Delay-sensitive multimedia streaming applications require their data to be delivered before a deadline to be useful. The data transmitted by these applications can usually be partitioned into blocks with different priorities, assigned based on the impact of a block on the Quality of Experience (QoE) if it misses its delivery deadline. Meet their deadline requirements is challenging due to the dynamics of the network and these applications' high demand on network resources. To encourage the research community to address this challenge, we organize the "Meet Deadline Requirements" Grand Challenge at ACM Multimedia 2021. This grand challenge provides a simulation platform onto which the participants can implement their block scheduler and bandwidth estimator and then benchmark against each other using a common set of application traces and network traces.