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Here you can find lecture notes and other relevant material for the Spring 2008 semester on MSCEG442 Multimedia Networking course.

It is highly recommended for students to have the following lecture notes with them in paper copies in each and every lecture. In this respect, notes are provided in portable document format (pdf) and can be downloaded by left-clicking on each link under the following section "Lecture Notes".

The notes provided must not be considered as a replacement of either attendance of lectures or study of the suggested textbooks. Their purpose is to assist you in your studying and provide you with guidelines on what you should be focusing on. You are encouraged to enhance notes with study from the main and recommended literature.

TIMETABLE

Day

Period

Room

Monday

8, 9, 10 & 11 (16:00 - 19:30)

Computer room, 3rd floor, Main Building, Nicosia Campus

(Tutorials: every fortnight after the lectures)

TI

COURSE INFORMATION

Prerequisite

MSCEG425

Course outline

 

LECTURE NOTES

Week No.

Notes

Topics covered

1, 2, 3

No lecture

4

(3/3/08)

Preamble

Part 1

Explanation of what the course will cover.
Introduction to multimedia networking

•Process-to-Process Delivery
—      UDP, TCP, and SCTP

5

(6/3/08)

Part 2
•Congestion Control and Quality of Service
—  Data traffic
—  Congestion & congestion control
—  QoS & its application to switched networks
—  Integrated and differentiated services

6, 7, 8

(13, 20 & 27/3/08)

Part 3
•Multimedia
—  Digitizing audio & video
—  Streaming stored audio/video
—  Streaming live audio/video
—  Protocols for real-time interactive applications
—  Multimedia storage
—  Distributing multimedia

9

(3 & 10/4/08)

Part 4

 Wireless networking
•
—  Introduction
—  WiFi 802.11a/b/g
—  Mobile Ad-Hoc networks

10

(17/4/08)

 Part 5 IP Multimedia Subsystem
•  Current Standards Activity
•  Overview of IMS Architecture
•  IMS Core Network Elements
•  Registration and Call Flow
•
Easter Vacations

11

(8/5/2008)

 Presentation of Assignment Work in Class

12

(15/5/2008)

Revision for Final Examinations 

 

STUDENTS EVALUATION

40% of an MSc student's grade corresponds to the result of his/her final examination. The remaining 60% is the student's coursework grade, which will be calculated as follows:

Evaluation Type

Deadline for submission

Weight

Assignment/presentation

8/5/2008

20% of overall grade
Research project 8/5/2008

40% of overall grade

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lectures given in every class session are based on the main textbook. The tests and examinations are based on the material covered in class. Students are advised to purchase the main textbook on which many topics of the course are covered. Students are also advised to review the extensive list of books offered at the FIT library on the matter.  


Main textbook  

·        Behrouz A. Forouzan, Data Communications and Networking, 3rd edition 2004 or 4th edition 2007

  • James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross, Computer Networking: a top-down approach featuring the Internet, 3rd edition,, Pearson, Addison Wesley, 2005

 

Additional reading and other learning recourses

·          William Stallings, Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, 6th edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2000  

·          William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, 7th edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004

·          Dr. Sidnie Feit, Local Area High Speed Networks, Que/Sams, 2000.

·          Fred Halhall, Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open Systems, Addison Wisley, 1995.

·          Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003.

·          Matthew S. Gast, 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly, 2002.

·          William Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, 7th edition, Prentice Hall, 2000

·          William Stallings, ISDN and Broadband ISDN with Frame Relay and ATM, 4th edition (1999), Prentice Hall.

·          William Stallings, Wireless Communications and Networks, 1st edition (August 6, 2001), Prentice Hall

A wealth of information is also available on the Internet. Good reference guides are the following URLs:

·          Internet Engineering Task Force: http://www.ietf.org/        

·          IEEE Communications Society: http://www.ieee.org/         

·          International Telecommunications Union: http://www.itu.int/

·          International Organization of Standardization: http://www.iso.org/

·          Links to vendors, tutorial and other useful information: http://www.commweb.com/

·          Educational encyclopaedia: http://users.pandora.be/educypedia/computer/

 

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