Subject Code: EC6L025 Subject Name: Multimedia Network L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credits: 3
Pre-requisite(s): Communication Engineering
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.

Text/Reference Books:
  1. Perkins, “RTP: Audio and Video for the Internet,” Addison-Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0-672-32249-8.
  2. Hwang, “Multimedia Networking: From Theory to Practice,” Cambridge, ISBN: 978-0-521-88204-0.
  3. F. Halsall, Multimedia Communications Applications, Networks, Protocols and  Standards,  Addison Wesley, 2001, ISBN: 0-201-39818-4
  4. K.R. Rao and Z.S. Bojkovic,  Packet Video Communications over ATM Networks, Prentice Hall, 2000, ISBN: 0-13-011518-5
  5. J. B. Anderson, “Mobile Communications, Series Editor,” ISBN: 0-7803-6032- X
  6. C. -H. Wu and J.D. Irwin “Emerging Multimedia Computer Communication Technologies,” Prentice Hall, 1998, ISBN: 0-13-079967-X