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Multimedia Networks and Services

Course title: Multimedia Networks and Services

Code: 3ФЕИТ10Л024

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course Goals (acquired competencies): Students will be introduced with architecture of multimedia networks and multimedia transport protocols. Upon completing the coursework obligations, students will be able to design modern multimedia communications networks and services.

Total available number of classes: 180

Course Syllabus: Introduction to Multimedia Networks. Protocols for interactive services and real-time services (RTP, RTCP, SDP). QoS and service classes. Resource management in multimedia networks. Performances of multimedia networks and services. Multicast architectures. IP Multicast. Multimedia applications. Multimedia protocols. Streaming audio and video. RTSP, RTMP. HTTP based streaming protocols (HLS, HDS, SmoothStreaming). Adaptive Streaming (MPEG-DASH). CDN Architecture. System architecture for OTT services. Features of multimedia players in different operating systems. Multimedia players for WEB. Flash based players.

Literature:

Required Literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

Hans W. Barz, Gregory A. Bassett

Multimedia Networks: Protocols, Design and Applications

Wiley

2016

2

Mihaela Van der Schaar

Multimedia Over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression, Networking and Systems

Academic Press

2012