CS 6593
Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems:
Networked Multimedia Systems

Networked multimedia is an important emerging area with applications that range from simple delivery of multimedia content from web pages to digital libraries, computer-supported cooperative work (CSWC), Internet telephonics, and video on demand. This course will examine networked multimedia from a systems perspective:

• Overview of multimedia systems
  Basic definitions, formats, delivery issues
• Web infrastructure
  Browsers, servers, protocols, caching
• Standards for the components
  Text, graphics, images, video, audio, documents, time, and money: JPEG, GIF, MPEG, MP3, MHEG, MIDI, etc.
• Network support for multimedia
  Integrated Services Model (ISM), MBONE, RSVP (reservation protocol), RTP (real-time protocol), RTSP (real-time streaming protocol), and NTP (network time protocol).
• Delivery and Quality-of-Service
  Compression, quality-of-service, and synchronization.
• Operating system support
  File systems, support of databases involving images and video, scheduling issues, application support such as Java Media Framework.
• Applications and Emerging technology
  Principles, protocols, security, and implementation issues for emerging multimedia technologies such as e-commerce, m-commerce, video-on-demand, audio-video conferencing and collaboratories.