Topics Covered

Review of multimedia communications; asynchronous and synchronous transmission techniques, synchronization issues and challenges, advanced signal compression, error-detection and correction methods; high-speed multimedia communication networks, switched network and enterprise networks; emerging technologies: ATM, SONET, SDH, ISDN, SMDS networks and their framing  formats, bandwidth requirements; traffic characteristics, traffic scheduling, resource reservation, and QoS issues of multimedia networks; wireless network for multimedia, mobile IP and mobile Adhoc networking, network security and secured remote access; protocol specification, UDP, TCP/IP and OSI reference models, SS7 and HDLC protocols, FTP, H.26x, RTP, SCTP, MSCTP, ICMP: message formats and transmission; voice over IP and mobile IP protocols, IPv6/IPv4 interoperability; advanced routing mechanisms, broadcast and multicast routing, watermarking and authentication for multimedia documents; NGI and Internet 2, revolutionary applications of Internet, transcoding of Internets multimedia content for universal access; entertainment networks, IP applications, audio and video conferencing, Internet through mobile and WiMAX.