Lecturer: Mark Handley
Aims: to describe the ways in which multimedia information is captured, processed, and rendered, to introduce multimedia quality of service (QoS) and to compare subjective and objective methods of assessing user satisfaction, to discuss the ways in which multimedia data is transmitted across networks, and to discuss privacy and copyright issues in the context of multimedia.
Learning Outcomes: The ability to: describe different realisations of multimedia tools and the way in which they are used; analyse the structure of the tools in the light of low-level constraints imposed by the adoption of various QoS schemes (ie bottom up approach); analyse the effects of scale and use on both presentation and lower-level requirements (ie top down approach); state the properties of different media streams; compare and contrast different network protocols and to describe mechanisms for providing QoS guarantees in the network.
Recommended books:
F. Halsall: "Multimedia Communications: Applications, Networks, Protocols, and Standards", 1/e 2000 Addison-Wesley
J. Crowcroft, M. Handley, I. Wakeman: "Internetworking Multimedia", 1999 Morgan Kaufmann
F. Fluckiger: "Understanding Networked Multimedia: Applications and Technology", 1/e 1996 Prentice Hall
N. Sharda: "Multimedia Information Networking", 1/e 1999 Prentice Hall
R. Steinmetz, K. Nahrstedt: "Media Coding and Content Processing", 2002 Prentice Hall
J. Irwin, Chwan-Hwa Wu: "Emerging Multimedia Computer Communication Technologies", 1/e 1998 Prentice Hall
F. Kuo, J. J. Garcia Luna-Aceves, W. Effelsberg: "Multimedia Communications: Protocols and Applications", 1/e 1998 Prentice Hall
S.V. Raghavan, S. Tripathi: "Networked Multimedia Systems: Concepts, Architecture, and Design", 1/e 1998 Prentice Hall
A. Milovanovic, Zoran S. Bojkovic, Dragorad A. Milovanovic, Kamisetty Ramamohan Rao: "Multimedia Communication Systems: Techniques, Standards, and Networks", 2002 Prentice Hall