CSC 790 - Multimedia Networks

Fall 2009
Lecture: 244 Manchester Hall, T Th 9:30-10:45am

Course Information

Syllabus [ps] [pdf]
Paper review form [txt]
Homework 1, question 6 and 7 [matlab]
Lecture Slides
- Multimedia applications [ps] [pdf]
- Text and images [ps] [pdf]
- Audio [ps] [pdf]
- Audio and video [ps] [pdf]
- MPEG [ps] [pdf]
- Networks [ps] [pdf]
- IP [ps] [pdf]
- Transport layer [ps] [pdf]
- Socket programming [ps] [pdf]
- QoS [ps] [pdf]
- Play-out buffering [ps] [pdf]
- Streaming [ps] [pdf]
- Integrated Services [ps] [pdf]
- Differentiated Services [ps] [pdf]
- LAN QoS [ps] [pdf]
Additional Reading
- (review) "VoIP - Better than PSTN," Jan Linden [pdf] (are you a believer?)
- (review) "An Empirical Evaluation of VoIP Playout Buffer Dimensioning in Skype, Google Talk, and MSN Messenger," Chen-Chi Wu, Kuan-Ta Chen, Yu-Chun Chang, and Chin-Laung Lei, 2009 [pdf]
- "Internet Quality of Service: an Overview," Weiben Zhao, David Olshefski, and Henning Schulzrinne, 2003 [pdf]
- (review) "On-Line Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation," M. K. Jeeves, 1997 [pdf]
- "RSVP and Integrated Services in the Internet: A Tutorial," P. White. In IEEE Communications Magazine, May 1997 [pdf]
- "Differentiated Services in the Internet," B. Carpenter and K. Nichols. In Proceedings of the IEEE, 2002 [pdf]
- (review) "Empirical Evaluation of the Congestion Responsiveness of RealPlayer Video Streams," J. Chung and M. Claypool, In Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2006 [pdf]
- (review) "A Survey of Quality of Service in IEEE 802.11 Networks," H. Zhu, M. Li, I. Chlamtac, and B. Prabhakaran, IEEE Wireless Communications, 2006 [pdf]
- CSC 343/643 Fall 2008 Lecture Slides

Project Information

Linux Audio (9/25)
- Information about Linux sound programming [txt]
- Conversion from mu-law to PCM [pcmu_l.h] and [pcmu_l14.c]
- Open Sound System OSS 4.x Programmer's Guide
Digital Karaoke (10/9)
- L. R. Rabiner and M. R. Sambur "An Algorithm for Determining the Endpoints of Isolated Utterances" The Bell System Technical Journal, February 1975 [pdf]
Linux Streaming Audio (10/23)
RTP-lite Network Karaoke (11/6)
- Project slides [ps] [pdf]
- Evil server (Ubuntu netbook compiled) [exe]
  You may have to make the file executable once it is downloaded, to do so enter the command "chmod +x evlSrv"
RTP-lite Network creepy Cam (11/18)
- Make certain you install libsdl1.2-dev
- Simple program to verify webcam and SDL working [proj5.cpp]
- Header files [defs.h], [webcam.h] and [sdl.h]
- Initial server and client files [initVidSrv.cpp] and [initVidCli.cpp]
- Evil video server (Ubuntu netbook compiled) coming soon...

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