17EC741 Multimedia Communication syllabus for EC

Multimedia Communications:

Introduction, Multimedia information representation, multimedia networks, multimedia applications, Application and networking terminology. (Chap 1 of Text 1) L1, L2

Information Representation:

Introduction, Digitization principles, Text, Images, Audio and Video (Chap 2 of Text 1) L1, L2

Text and image compression:

Introduction, Compression principles, text compression, image Compression. (Chap 3 of Text 1)

Distributed multimedia systems:

Introduction, main Features of a DMS, Resource management of DMS, Networking, Multimedia operating systems (Chap. 4 - Sections 4.1 to 4.5 of Text 2). L1, L2, L3

Audio and video compression:

Introduction, Audio compression, video compression, video compression principles, video compression. (Chap. 4 of Text 1). L1, L2, L3

Multimedia Communication Across Networks:

Packet audio/video in the network environment, Video transport across generic networks, Multimedia Transport across ATM Networks (Chap. 6 - Sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 of Text 2). L1, L2

Course Outcomes:

After studying this course, students will be able to:

• Understand basics of different multimedia networks and applications.
• Understand different compression techniques to compress audio and video.
• Describe multimedia Communication across Networks.
• Analyse different media types to represent them in digital form.
• Compress different types of text and images using different compression techniques and analyse DMS.

Text Books:

1. Fred Halsall, ―Multimedia Communications‖, Pearson education, 2001 ISBN - 9788131709948.

2. K. R. Rao, Zoran S. Bojkovic, Dragorad A. Milovanovic, ―Multimedia Communication Systems‖, Pearson education, 2004. ISBN -9788120321458

Reference Book:

Raifsteinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt, ―Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications‖, Pearson education, 2002. ISBN -9788177584417