Internet Multimedia on Wireless Networks

Abstract:

With the advent of speed technologies like ATM and fibre, multimedia
applications like voice, video and hit bitrate data could be supported
on pakcet siwtched networks. Internet has gained popularity as a
very convenient platform for applications and supports easy access to
users. Meanwhile the mobile user population is growing at a fast rate
and so are their demands for multimedia applications support with some
Guaranteed of Service. Hence it is expected that currently a lot of
research focus is directed towards supporting  multimedia application
to the roaming user on a convenient platform like the Internet. This
talk deals with some of the issues that have to be handled to make this
requirement feasibile. The main focus is on the network protocols that
require some additional functions to achieve this.

Short biodata:

Nirmala is currently a Senior Lecturer at the RMIT University, in
Melbourne, Australia. She teaches subejcts in Networking and Network
Management. Her research interests are in the above area. She completed
her Bachelor's in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering and
Master's in Applied Electronics from Univeristy of Madras in India and
her PhD in Computer Science from Univeristy of Bremen, Germany. She
has worked several years as a Research Scientist in India. Subsequently
she obtained a German Academic Exchange Fellowship and then worked on
a European Community Project in Germany for 3 years at University of
Bremen,while she completed her PhD.