CS 778/878-Networked Multimedia Systems
Spring 1999
Instructor
Name: Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Ph.D.
Office : 249-4 Education Building
Phone : 683-4512
Office Hrs: T 10am-12 & W 3:30-5pm or contact me for an appointment.
Electronic Mail: wahab@cs.odu.edu or wahab@cs.unc.edu
Textbook
Multimedia Communications: Protocols and Applications
By F. Kuo, W, Effelsberg and J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Prentice-Hall, 1998, (ISBN 0-13-856923-1).
Topics
- Introduction to Multimedia
- Multimedia Networks: Requirements and Performance Issues
- Performance parameters
- Traffic Characteristics
- Traffic Requirements
- Compression Methods
- Basic Coding Methods
- Video Compression
- Audio Compression
- Networking Infrastructure and Technologies
- Network and Transportation Layer Protocols for Multimedia
- New generation of protocols for Multimedia
- Media Filtering, Scaling and Adaptive applications
- End-to-End Reliable Multicast
- Sender-Initiated Protocols
- Receiver-Initiated Protocols
- Tree-based Protocols
- Ring-based Protocols
- Multimedia Applications in Networks
- Application-Level Framing
- Audio/video Conferencing
- Video Servers
- Applications Requiring Reliable Multicasting
- Multimedia Applications in the Web
- Interactive Multiplayer Games
- Case Study: The IRI system.
Grading
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Dr. Wahab