Advanced topics in technologies, protocols,
standards and future trends of multimedia over computer networks are discussed
in this course. Students taking this course will be aware of all details about
standard protocols that are used to take care about multimedia transportation
from end-to-end in Internet. Furthermore, an introduction to quality of service
and traffic engineering is covered in this course.
Topics covered in this course include: review of
standard TCP/IP protocol structure; standard multimedia protocols such as:
session initiation protocol (SIP);session description protocol (SDP); real time
transport protocol (RTP);real time control protocol (RTCP); real time streaming
protocol (RTSP); resource reservation protocol (RSVP) and H.323 protocol; MPLS
protocol and multimedia; study different multimedia applications such as VOIP;
video conferencing and IPTV; introduction of traffic engineering and quality of
service in IP networks; finally network analysis case study with OPNET tool.
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge &understand
Ability to describe the multimedia compression and encoding standards
Ability to explain the operation of multimedia streaming, VoIP, IPTV over Internet
Identify the essential protocols that are needed for multimedia transmission over the Internet
Ability to describe the main functions and essential building blocks of the contents distributions networks (CDN) architecture
mental skills
Ability to choose suitable protocols the support multimedia transmission over Internet according to different application needs
Analyze the quality of service of the real-time multimedia streaming and VoIP over the Internet
Ability to design a multimedia data center
Ability to compare different technologies impacts on real-time multimedia transmission over the Internet
Practical & professional skills
Build a successful system for multimedia transmission over the Internet
Efficiently use the networking software tools to model and simulate the transfer of the multimedia over the Internet
Experiment the operation of the VoIP, online gaming, IPTV and video conferencing
Ability to measure the performance of the multimedia transfer networking technologies
General and transferable skills
Preparing and make presentations skills
Team work skills
Choosing suitable presentation techniques
Learning presentation assessment techniques
Teaching and learning methods
Lectures
Project-based learning
Methods of assessments
Midterm exam = 20
Final exam = 50
Hands on project = 20
Project presentation = 10
Course contents
Introduction to multimedia
Multimedia session setup: SIP, H.323 protocol with VoIP operation
Multimedia real-time transportation using real-time transmission (RTP) protocol
Quality of the multimedia session using real-time transmission control (RTCP) protocol
Multimedia streaming: using real-time streaming (RTSP) protocol
Multimedia resource reservation using resource reservation (RSVP) protocol
Multimedia and routing: MPLS protocol
Multimedia and quality: queuing and scheduling techniques
Multimedia and quality: services, models (Integrated service, differentiated service)
Multimedia data center architecture design principles