Multimedia networking is an important area in networking. This course explores recent advances in multimedia networking technologies. Major topics include multimedia compression and standards such as JPEG and MPEG, Internet multimedia applications such VoIP and IPTV, multimedia transport over wire and wireless networks, multimedia protocols such as SIP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP, and RSVP, multicasting of multimedia data, and network systems support for multimedia and performance analysis.
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 the Internet
Identify the essential protocols that are needed for multimedia transmission over the Internet
Ability to describe the concepts of multi-streaming, multicasting, and multi-homing of the multimedia 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
