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This document contains questions for an exam on Multimedia Communication. It includes questions on various topics such as: - Defining multimedia and describing the different media types. - Explaining the components of PSTN networks and how modems provide multiple services. - Describing different communication channel modes like simplex, duplex, broadcast and multicast. - Explaining circuit switched and packet switched networks along with their quality of service characteristics. - Calculating maximum block sizes for error detection over communication channels. The document contains short questions and longer answer questions on additional topics such as text formats for documents, the principles behind PCM speech coding, encoding and transmitting digitized images, Huffman coding

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MMC Dec 2011

This document contains questions for an exam on Multimedia Communication. It includes questions on various topics such as: - Defining multimedia and describing the different media types. - Explaining the components of PSTN networks and how modems provide multiple services. - Describing different communication channel modes like simplex, duplex, broadcast and multicast. - Explaining circuit switched and packet switched networks along with their quality of service characteristics. - Calculating maximum block sizes for error detection over communication channels. The document contains short questions and longer answer questions on additional topics such as text formats for documents, the principles behind PCM speech coding, encoding and transmitting digitized images, Huffman coding

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M.Tech. I)egree Examination, December 2011
Multimedia Gommunication
Time: 3 hrs. Max. Marks:100
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1 a. Define multimedia. Briefly explain the rnedia types associated with rnultimedia. (06 Marls)
b. With the help of a diagram, describe the main components of PSTN and show how a high
speed modem provides multiple services in addition to basic telephony. (10 Marks)
c. Briefly explain the following operational modes of a communication channel
D
Simplex
ii) Duplex iii) Broadcast iv) Multicast.
(04
Marks)
2 a. With a neat diagrarn, explain the working of circuit switched and packet switched networks.
(10 Marls)
b. Briefly explain the network
QOS
associated with the circuit switched and packet switched
networks. (07 Marls)
c. Derive the marimum block size that should be used over a channel which has a mean BFR
probability of 104, if the probability of a block containing an error and hence being
discarded is to be l0-1. (03 Martrs)
3 a. Explain briefiy three texts that are used to produce pages of documents. (06 Marls)
b. With the aid of the diagram, explain the principle of operation of PCM speech sodec.
Explain also the compression and expander characteristics. (10 Marks)
c. Find out the time taken to fransmit the following digitized images at both 64Kbps and
l.5Mbps : i) a 640
x
480
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8 VGA compatible image ii) a 1024
x
768
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24 SVGA
compatible image. (04 Marks)
a. A series of messages is to be transmitted between computers over a PSTN. The messages
comprise the characters, A through H. The probability of each character is as follows :
AandB
:0.25,
C andD = 0.14, E, F, GandH= 0.055.
i) Use Shanon's formula to derive the minimum average number of bits / character.
ii) Use Haffrnan coding to derive the codeword and prove that this is the minimum set by
constructing the corresponding Huffinan code tree. (14 Marks)
b. With the aid of a diagram, identiff the five main stagep associated with the base line made
of operation of JPEG. (06 Marls)
a. With the help of an encoder / decoder draw schematic diagram explain the principles of
DPCM. (10 Marls)
b. With the help of example frame sequences, explain I, P, B, and D frames and the reasons for
their use. (10 Marks)
a. With the help of a neat diagram, explain the MPE G
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b. Discuss the significant features of JPEG
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c. Write short note on MPEG
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a. Explain four layer synchronizationreference model of an multimedia applications.
(10 Marlis)
b. With the aid of neat diagrams, explain the classification of logical data units. (10 Mrrks)
V/rite short notes on :
a. Multimedia operating system. b. Multimedia in mobile networks.
c. Resourse and process rnanagement technique. d. Error resilient coding.
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