AKTU Multimedia Communication (HTAC701) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech Honors Degree in Advance Communication Technology

Course Objectives

1. The objective of the course is to provide the knowledge about Multimedia components.
2. This course provides the audio and video compression and design of codec’s and VoIP.
3. To let the students understand that Lossless compression is one of the most important elements of multimedia communication.

Course Outcomes

1. Able to acquire the knowledge about all basic Multimedia components.
2. Able to know about the all audio and video compression and design of codec’s and VoIP.
3. Acquire knowledge about the lossless compression techniques.
4. Understand the VoIP technology
5. Analyze the multimedia networking

Course Content

UNIT – I MULTIMEDIA COMPONENTS Introduction - Multimedia skills - Multimedia components and their characteristics - Text, sound, images, graphics, animation, video, hardware.

UNIT – II AUDIO AND VIDEO COMPRESSION Audio compression–DPCM-Adaptive PCM –adaptive predictive coding-linear Predictive coding-code excited LPC-perpetual coding, MP3; Video compression – principles-H.261-H.263- MPEG 1, 2, 4.

UNIT – III LOSSLESS COMPRESSION Compression principles-source encoders and destination encoders—entropy encoding –source encoding -text compression –static Huffman coding dynamic coding –arithmetic coding –Lempel Ziv-Welch Compression.

UNIT – IV VoIP TECHNOLOGY Basics of IP transport, VoIP challenges, H.323/ SIP –Network Architecture, Protocols, Call establishment and release, VoIP and SS7, Quality of Service- CODEC Methods-VOIP applicability.

UNIT – V MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING Multimedia networking -Applications-streamed stored and audio making the best Effort service-protocols for real time interactive Applications-distributing multimedia beyond best effort service secluding and policing Mechanisms-integrated services differentiated Services-RSVP.

Text Books

1. Fred Halshall, “Multimedia communication - applications, networks, protocols and standards”, Pearson education, 2007.
2. Tay Vaughan, “Multimedia: Making it work”, 7/e, TMH, 2007.
3. Kurose and W.Ross, “Computer Networking –A top down approach”,Pearson education, 3rd ed, 2005.

Reference Books

1. Marcus Gonzalves, “Voice over IP Networks”, McGraw Hill
2. KR. Rao,Z S Bojkovic, D A Milovanovic, “Multimedia Communication Systems: Techniques, Standards, and Networks”, Pearson Education 2007
3. R. Steimnetz, K. Nahrstedt, “Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications”, Pearson Education, First ed, 1995.
4. Ranjan Parekh, “Principles of Multimedia”, TMH, 2006 Note:Internal assessment may include a mini projects on any of the topics covering the technology aspects