CS9256 MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS

CS9256 MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS

UNIT I INTRODUCTION AND QOS

Introduction-QOS Requirements and Constraints-Concepts-Resources- Establishment Phase-
Run-Time Phase-Management Architectures.

UNIT II OPERATING SYSTEMS

Real-Time Processing-Scheduling-Interprocess Communication-Memory and Management-
Server Architecture-Disk Management.
UNIT III FILE SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

Traditional and Multimedia File Systems-Caching Policy-Batching-Piggy backing-Ethernet-
Gigabit Ethernet-Token Ring-100VG Any LAN-Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)- ATM
Networks-MAN-WAN.

UNIT IV COMMUNICATION

Transport Subsystem-Protocol Support for QOS-Transport of Multimedia-Computer Supported
Cooperative Work-Architecture-Session Management-MBone Applications.

UNIT V SYNCHRONIZATION

Synchronization in Multimedia Systems-Presentation-Synchronization Types-Multimedia
Synchronization Methods-Case Studies-MHEG-MODE-ACME.


TEXT BOOKS:

1. Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt, “Multimedia Systems”, Springer, I Edition 2004.

REFERENCES:

1. Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt , Media Coding and Content Processing, Prentice
hall, 2002.
2. Vaughan T, Multimedia, Tata McGraw Hill, 1999.
3. Mark J.B., Sandra K.M., Multimedia Applications Development using DVI technology,
McGraw Hill, 1992.
4. K. R. Rao, Zoran S. Bojkovic, Dragorad A. Milovacovic, D. A. Milovacovic , Multimedia
Communication Systems: Techniques, Standards, and Networks, Prentice Hall, 1st
Edition, 2002
5. Ze-Nian Li and Mark S. Drew, Fundamentals of Multimedia, Pearson, 2004.