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Multimedia Networking
COMP249
This course covers the concepts and principles underlying multimedia applications with particular emphasis on digital audio and video. Course topics will be roughly divided between networking concepts and media coding and representation. On the networking side, the course will explore technologies and techniques used to satisfy the real-time, low-latency delivery requirements of continuous media data types. Protocols studied will include RTP, RSVP, RTSP, as well as recently developed experimental protocols. Multicast technologies that will be covered include multicast routing, reliable multicast delivery, and application-level content distribution networks. Media coding topics will concentrate on video and audio representations. In particular, students will study basic compression techniques such as entropy encoding, the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), and wavelet transforms. Specific video and audio formats including MPEG-1 video, MPEG-1 layer 3 audio (MP3), MPEG-2, H.261, H.263 and PCM audio will be examined to understand how these techniques are used in practice. Future directions in multimedia networking, including MPEG-4, may also be covered.
Projects
Aggregate Congestion Control of Multiple Multimedia Streams
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Professor
Ketan Mayer-Patel
Schedule
Tue 9:30-10:45
Thu 9:30-10:45
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