COMP 3690 Multimedia Communication

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COMP 3690Multimedia Communication
http//www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/comp3690
Dr. Fang Bin Second Semester 04-05
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Course Outline

• Objectives
• Students will learn the principles of multimedia
  communications and study some applications and
  current topics.

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Course Outline
Text Book No textbook References F. Halsall,
Multimedia Communications, Addison Wesley,
2001. S.V. Raghavan and S. K. Tripathi,
Networked Multimedia Systems, Prentice Hall,
1998. K. R. Rao, Z. S. Bojkovic, and D. A.
Milovanovic, Multimedia Communication Systems
Techniques, Standards, and Networks, Prentice
Hall, 2002. G. Huston, Internet Performance
Survival Guide, Wiley, 2000. J. Crowcroft, M.
Handley, and I. Wakeman, Internetworking Multimedi
a, Morgan Kaufman, 1999. K. Jeffay and H.
Zhang, Readings in Multimeida Computing
and Networking, Morgan Kaufmann, 2001. J. F.
Kurose and K. W. Ross, Computer Networking A
Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, 2nd
ed., Addison Wesley, 2003. M. Tatipamula and B.
Khasnabish, Multimedia Communications Networks,
Artech Hourse, 1998. Selected articles from
journals, magazines and conference proceedings.
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Lectures
3 hours of lectures (include 1 hour of bi-weekly
tutorial)
Lecture Hours Tue 1030 1120
_at_LMC512 Fri 0930 1020 _at_LMC511 Fri
1030 1120 _at_LMC511
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Assessment

• Continuous assessment 30
• - Hands-on assignment In this assignment, each
  student will set
• up (1) an Internet radio station, and (2) an
  Internet TV station.
• Due date is February or March.
• - Programming assignment In this assignment,
  each student
• will develop a voice chat system for Internet
  telephony. Due date
• is April.
• Final examination 70
• Notes
• Penalty will be imposed on copying assignments
  minimum penalty is zero mark for the assignments
  and students will be referred to the Student
  Affairs Office.
• In order to pass the subject, a student has to
  obtain at least 30 of the total score in the
  final examination.

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• Lecturer
• Fang, Bin
• Room R723
• Email fangb_at_comp.hkbu.edu.hk
• Teaching Assistant
• Wu, Minji Alex
• Room R720
• Email talexwu_at_comp.hkbu.edu.hk

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• Sample of Course Topics
• 1. Multimedia representation and compression
  (e.g., MP3,
• JPEG, MPEG).
• 2. Multimedia Networking
• Transmission (e.g., progressive transmission
  of images)
• Error and traffic control
• 3. Multimedia over the Internet
• Protocols
• Streaming multimedia
• Multimedia security
• 4. Applications
• Internet radio
• Internet TV
• Internet telephony
• Multimedia-on-demand systems
• Cable TV systems