ET4008 Multimedia Communications Syllabus:
ET4008 Multimedia Communications Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1. To define the Multimedia Communication Models
2. To explain Multimedia Transport in Wireless Networks
3. To Solve the Security issues in multimedia networks
4. To Illustrate real-time multimedia network applications.
5. To explain different network layer based application
UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS
Introduction, multimedia information representation, multimedia networks, multimedia applications, Application and networking terminology, network QoS and application QoS, Digitization principles,. Text, images, audio and video.
UNIT II COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES FOR TEXT AND IMAGE
Text and image compression,, compression principles, text compression- Runlength, Huffman, LZW, Document Image compression using T2 and T3coding, image compression- GIF, TIFF and JPEG.
UNIT III COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES FOR AUIDO AND VIDEO
Audio and video compression, audio compression – principles, DPCM, ADPCM, Adaptive and Linear predictive coding, Code-Excited LPC, Perceptual coding, MPEG and Dolby coders video compression, video compression principles.
UNI IV STANDARDS AND FRAMEWORK
Video compression standards: H.261, H.263, MPEG, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG-4 and Reversible VLCs, MPEG 7 standardization process of multimedia content description, MPEG 21 multimedia framework.
UNIT V SYNCHRONIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
Notion of synchronization, presentation requirements, reference model for synchronization, Introduction to SMIL, Multimedia operating systems, Resource management, process management techniques.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
At the end of this course, the students will have the ability to
CO1: Deploy the right multimedia communication models.
CO2: Apply QoS to multimedia network applications with efficient routing techniques.
CO3: Solve the security threats in the multimedia networks.
CO4: Develop the real-time multimedia network applications
CO5: Improve to synchronize and manage the multimedia systems.
REFERENCES
1. Fred Halsall, “Multimedia Communications”, Pearson education,2001.
2. Raif Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt, “Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications”,Pearsoneducation,2002.