06EC841 - MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS |
PART – A |
UNIT – I |
MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS: Introduction, multimedia
information representation, multimedia networks, multimedia applications,
media types, communication modes, network types, multipoint conferencing,
network QoS application QoS. |
UNIT – II |
MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION REPRESENTATION: Introduction,
digital principles, text, images, audio, video. |
UNIT – III |
TEXT AND IMAGE COMPRESSION: Introduction, compression
principles, text compression, image compression. |
UNIT – IV |
AUDIO AND VIDEO COMPRESSION: Introduction, audio compression,
DPCM, ADPCM, APC, LPC, video compression, video compression
principles, H.261, H.263, MPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. |
PART – B |
UNIT – V |
MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION NETWORKS: Introduction, LANs,
Ethernet, Token ring, Bridges, FDDI High-speed LANs, LAN protocol. |
UNIT – VI |
THE INTERNET: Introduction, IP Datagrams, Fragmentation, IP Address,
ARP and RARP, QoS Support, IPv8. |
UNIT – VII |
BROADBAND ATM NETWORKS: Introduction, Cell format, Switfh and
Protocol Architecture ATM LANs. |
UNIT – VIII |
TRANSPORT PROTOCOL: Introduction, TCP/IP, TCP, UDP, RTP and
RTCP. |
REFERENCE |
TEXT BOOKS: |
1. Multimedia Communications: Applications, Networks,
Protocols and Standards, Fred Halsall, Pearson Education, Asia,
Second Indian reprint 2002. |
Reference Books |
1. Multimedia Information Networking, Nalin K. Sharda, PHI,
2003.
2. “Multimedia Fundamentals: Vol 1 - Media Coding and Content
Processing”, Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Narstedt, Pearson Education,
2004.
3. “Multimedia Systems Design”, Prabhat K. Andleigh, Kiran
Thakrar, PHI, 2004. |
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