TELE413 - 2009 S1: Multimedia Networking

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Course description

This paper examines the principles and advances in multimedia networking technologies. Major topics include multimedia representation, audio and video compression, multimedia communications standards and protocols, quality of service support, traffic engineering, wireless multimedia systems and technologies, and system performance analysis.

Prerequisites

TELE 302 (or INFO334) and TELE 303

Assessment

• Internal: 50%
• Two presentations: 20%
• Project: 30%
• Exam: 50%

Coordinator:

Dr Jeremiah Deng, CO903, Ext. 8090, jeremiah.deng@otago.ac.nz

Course Material

This course is based on readings selected from some recent research papers on the following topics:

• Protocols such as RTP, RSVP, and RTSP etc.
• Traffic control: AQM, RED etc.
• Multicast and routing
• Representation and compression techniques such as DCT, Wavelet transform, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.261, H.263 and PCM audio
• Introduction to IP Multimedia Subsystem
• Wireless streaming applications, multimedia sensor networks etc.

Additionally the following will be used as references:

• Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet:3/e, James Kurose and Keith Ross, Addison-Wesley, 2005. Chapter 7: "Multimedia Networking", pp.565-652.
• Multimedia communication systems : techniques, standards and networks, K.R. Rao, Zoran S. Bojkovic, Dragorad A. Milovanovic. Prentice Hall PTR, 2002. (Chapters 4, 5, 6 are recommended.)

Last modified: 2 March 2007