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69494 - MULTIMEDIA SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS M

Academic Year 2022/2023

                
                        Docente:
                        Daniele Tarchi
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        ING-INF/03
                    
                        Language:
                        English
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Telecommunications Engineering (cod. 9205)

                                Also valid for
                                
                                    Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                                    
                                        Computer Engineering (cod. 5826)
                                    
                            Teaching resources on Virtuale
                        
                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Feb 21, 2023 to Jun 09, 2023

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, the student will have knowledge of the main mechanisms and techniques for efficiently represent, transmit and manage multimedia contents by focusing on the main standards for voice, audio, image, video compression, on multimedia communication and networking protocols (VoIP, RTP), multimedia content distribution, cloud computing and multimedia services.

Course contents

Notes on Information Theory and Source Coding: Definition of Information, Entropy, Lossless and Lossy Coding.
Image Compression: Image representations, JPEG Standard.
Video Compression: Motion Compensation Techniques, H.261, H.263, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264 (aka AVC), H.265 (aka HEVC).
Audio Compression: Basic of Digital Audio, Waveform Coding, Perceptive Coding (Vocoders, MPEG Audio (MP3)).
Multimedia Protocols: Multimedia Broadcasting (MPEG Transport Stream, MPEG Program Stream), Media Transport (RTP/RTCP), Session Description Protocol (SDP), QoS management in IP Networks (DiffServ, IntServ).
Multimedia Streaming Services: QoS for streaming services; Technologies (Caching, Content Distribution Networks, Multicast, Adaptive HTTP Streaming) and Architectures (Netflix, IPTV).
Multimedia Interactive Services: QoS for voice services;VoIP (SIP, Mobile VoIP, IP Multimedia Subsystem, VoLTE)

Readings/Bibliography

Z.-N. Li, M. S. Drew, and J. Liu, "Fundamentals of Multimedia", 3rd Edition, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2021
Hans W. Barz and Gregory A. Basset, "Multimedia Networks: Protocols, Design and Applications", Wiley, March 2016
L. Sun, I.-H. Mkwawa, E. Jammeh, and E. Ifeachor, "Guide to Voice and Video over IP - For Fixed and Mobile Networks", Springer International Publishing, 2013
J. F. Kurose, and K. W. Ross "Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach", 8th Edition, Pearson, 2021
Additional material distributed in class

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures in classroom

Assessment methods

The assessment will be performed through a written test and an oral presentation.

The written exam will be composed of both open and closed questions with around 12 questions. The time is 90 minutes. For the oral presentation students have the possibility to focus on a specific topic. Each student prepares a presentation for the final exam discussing the selected topic with detail. During the final exam we will discuss also on the written test about possible mistakes.

Teaching tools

Use of slides during the lessons.

Office hours

See the website of Daniele Tarchi

SDGs

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.