18EC743 Multimedia Communication syllabus for EC

Multimedia Communications:

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

Information Representation:

Introduction, Digitization principles, Text, Images, Audio and Video. (Chapter 2 of Text 1)

Text and Image Compression:

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

Distributed Multimedia Systems:

Introduction, main Features of a DMS, Resource management of DMS, Networking, Multimedia Operating Systems. (Chapter 4- Sections 4.1 to 4.5 of Text 2),

Audio and video compression:

Introduction, Audio compression, video compression, video compression principles, video compression. (Chapter 4 of Text 1)

Multimedia Information Networks:

Introduction, LANs, Ethernet, Token ring, Bridges, FDDI High-speed LANs, LAN protocol(Chap. 8 of Text 1).

The Internet:

Introduction, IP Datagrams, Fragmentation, IP Address, ARP and RARP, QoS Support, IPv8. (Chap. 9 of Text 1),

Course Outcomes:

After studying this comse, students will be able to:

1. Understand basics of different multimedia networks and applications.

2 Understand different compression techniques to compress audio and video.

3. Describe multimedia Communication across Networks.

4. Analyse different media types to represent them in digital form.

5. Compress different types of text and images using different compression techniques.

Question paper pattern:

• Examination will be conducted for 100 marks with question paper containing 10 full questions, each of 20 marks.
• Each full question can have a maximum of 4 sub questions.
• There will be 2 full questions from each module covering all the topics of the module.
• Students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
• The total marks will be proportionally reduced to 60 marks as SEE marks is 60.

TextBook:

1. Multimedia Communications- Fred Halsall, Pearson Education, 2001, ISBN -9788131709948.

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

Reference Book:

• Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications­ Raifsteinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt, Pearson Education,2002.ISBN- 978817758