69494 - MULTIMEDIA SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS M

Anno Accademico 2018/2019

  • Docente: Daniele Tarchi
  • Crediti formativi: 6
  • SSD: ING-INF/03
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
  • Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Telecommunications engineering (cod. 9205)

    Valido anche per Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria informatica (cod. 0937)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

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.

Contenuti

  • Introduction
  • Notes on Information Theory: Definition of Information, Entropy
  • Source Coding: Notes on Lossless Coding and Lossy Coding;
  • Image Coding: Image representations, JPEG
  • Video Coding: Video Signal, Motion Compensation Techniques, H.261 and H.263, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4
  • Audio Coding: Basic of Digital Audio, Speech encoders, Vocoders, MPEG Audio (MP3)
  • Multimedia Broadcasting: MPEG Transport Stream, MPEG Program Stream, DVB Standards
  • Multimedia Services and Protocols: QoS management in IP Networks (DiffServ, IntServ), QoS for voice services; QoS for streaming services;
  • Multimedia Networks: Media Transport (RTP/RTCP) and Signaling (SIP, RTSP), IP Multmiedia Subsystem, Content Distribution Networks (Akamai), Multimedia Distribution Networks (Netflix)
  • Multimedia and Cloud: Cloud Networking, Multimedia Cloud systems

Testi/Bibliografia

  • Z.-N. Li, M. S. Drew, and J. Liu, "Fundamentals of Multimedia", 2nd Edition, Springer International Publishing, 2014
  • 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", 6th Edition, Pearson, 2013
  • Additional material distributed in class

Metodi didattici

Frontal lectures in classroom

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

The assessment of the teaching activity will be performed through an oral exam.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Use of slides during the lessons.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Daniele Tarchi

SDGs

Istruzione di qualità Lavoro dignitoso e crescita economica Imprese innovazione e infrastrutture Partnership per gli obiettivi

L'insegnamento contribuisce al perseguimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell'Agenda 2030 dell'ONU.