CSE 679: Introduction to Multimedia Networking

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Description

Introduction to multimedia data types, multimedia compression technologies, World-Wide-Web architectures, proxies, streaming video technologies, and network adaptation to multimedia.

Level and Credits

• U G 3 (three one-hour lectures)

Prerequisites

• CSE 677 or Permission of Instructor

Quarters Offered

• Au Qtr

Objectives

A student will:

• be familiar with the basics of multimedia data type, and compression technologies;
• be familiar with World-Wide-Web architecture, proxy, and streaming video technologies;
• be familiar with  networking technologies  evolving the best-effort service of the Internet  to better support multimedia;
• be exposed to new networking technologies beyond the best-effort service to better support mulitmedia.

Text

• Franklin Kuo, J.J Luna-Aceves, and Wolfgan Effelsberg, Multimedia Communications: Protocols and Applications, Prentice Hall, 1998 (optional textbook).
• Fred Halsall, Multimedia Communications: Applications, Networks, Protocols and Standards, Addison Wesley, 2001 (reference).
• James Kurose and Keith Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet,  Addison Wesley, 2003 (reference).

Topics

Number of Classes	Topic
1	Computer Networking Review
4	Introduction to Multimedia:  Multimedia Data   Multimedia Compression Technologies   JPEG  MPEG
6	Evolve the Best-Effort Service to Better Support Multimedia:  TCP/UDP Buffer management HTTP and RTP Multicast QoS Infrastucture
4	Real-world Multimedia Services  Voice over IP  P2P Streaming Mobile Handset Multimedia Services
5	Presentations

Representative Grading Plan

Homework	10%
Lab	15%
Paper Presentation	15%
Project Report	20%
Quiz	40%

Programming language: C or C++