Subject Code: EC6L025 Name: Multimedia Network L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Introduction: multimedia information representation – text, images, audio, video,  digital coding techniques and standards, audio coding, image coding, video coding
Multimedia compression and resiliency, codecs, adaptive coding, error handling techniques, multimedia network services and applications

Wireless broadband, broadcast tv and video streaming, qos, media transport protocols, session initiation protocol (sip), real-time streaming protocol (rtsp), real-time transport protocol (rtp), session description protocol (sdp), media transport - security issues/techniques and compression

Firewalls, nats, ipsec and secure rtp, header compression, next-generation multimedia network architecture standards: multiservice switching forum architecture.

Prerequisite: Communication Network

 Text/Reference Books:
  1. Perkins, RTP: Audio and Video for the Internet, Addison-Wesley, 2003
  2. Hwang, Multimedia Networking: From Theory to Practice, Cambridge
  3. Fred Halsall, Multimedia Communications Applications, Networks, Protocols and  Standards,  Addison Wesley, 2001
  4. K.R. Rao and Z.S. Bojkovic,  Packet Video Communications over ATM Networks, Prentice Hall, 2000,
  5. Mobile Communications, John B. Anderson, Series Editor
  6. Chwan-Hwa Wu and J.D. Irwin “Emerging Multimedia Computer Communication Technologies,” Prentice Hall, 1998
  7. IEEE Journals