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Multimedia Communication

The document outlines a course on Multimedia Communication that is divided into 5 modules. Module 1 introduces key concepts of multimedia information representation, networks, and applications. Modules 2-4 cover information representation of text, images, audio and video as well as compression techniques. Module 5 discusses multimedia transport across different network types. The course aims to provide students with an understanding of multimedia data types, compression, and transmission across networks.

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Multimedia Communication

The document outlines a course on Multimedia Communication that is divided into 5 modules. Module 1 introduces key concepts of multimedia information representation, networks, and applications. Modules 2-4 cover information representation of text, images, audio and video as well as compression techniques. Module 5 discusses multimedia transport across different network types. The course aims to provide students with an understanding of multimedia data types, compression, and transmission across networks.

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Multimedia Communication

(17EC741)
Module Title and Content of the Module
No.
Hours

MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS: Introduction, Multimedia


1 Information Representation, Multimedia Networks, Multimedia 8
Applications, applications and Networking Terminology.

INFORMATION REPRESENTATION: Introduction, Digitization


2 8
Principles, Text, Images, Audio and Video.
TEXT AND IMAGE COMPRESSION: Introduction, Compression
Principles, Text Compression, Image Compression.
3 DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS: Introduction, main 8

features of DMS, Resource management of DMS, Networking,


Multimedia Operating Systems.
AUDIO AND VIDEO COMPRESSION: Introduction, Audio
4 Compression, Video Compression, Video Compression 8

Principles,
MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION ACROSS NETWORKS: Packet
5
Audio/Video in the Network Environment, Video Transport 8
Across Generic Networks, Multimedia Transport Across ATM
Networks.
Text Books
• Multimedia Communications: Applications,
Networks,Protocols and Standards, Fred Halsall, Pearson
Education, Asia,Second Indian reprint 2002.
• K.R.Rao,Zoran.s.Bojkovic,Dragorad A.
Milovanovic,“Multimedia Communications Systems”,
Pearson Education ,2004,ISBN-9788120321458.
Introduction
• Multimedia is used to indicate that the
information /data being transferred over the
network may be composed of one or more of
following media types

Text, Images, Audio, Video


Communication may involve
 Person to person
 Person to system
Module 1
• Multimedia information representation
Text : block of character with each character by
fixed number of binary digits
Image: two dimensional picture elements called
pixels, each pixel by a fixed number of bits.
Audio & video: Need to be converted in digital
form
Multimedia Networks
• Telephone networks
• Data networks
• Broadcast television networks
• Integrated services digital network
• Broadband multiservice networks
Multimedia Applications

• Interpersonal communications
• Interactive applications over the internet
• Entertainment applications.
Interpersonal applications
• Speech only

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