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.
