Prime University

Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Program: B.Sc in ETE (Undergraduate) Semester: Summer 2011 Course Code Course Title Course Teacher Number of Units Prerequisite Duration : ETE 436 : Multimedia Communications and Service on the Internet : Shuvodip Das : 01 Unit (03 Credits) : Digital Communication, Multimedia and Image Processing. : 39 Hours

Description The mission of this course is to provide fundamental concept of multimedia communication system, multimedia information representation, text, image, audio and video compression techniques and different standards of multimedia communications. Objectives The main objective of this course is to provide knowledge about the ideas of multimedia communication system and its application areas. Assessment Assessment type Class attendance Assignments Class tests Midterm examination Final examination Total Course contents Sl# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Contents Introduction Multimedia Information Representation Multimedia, Telephone Network and ISDN Text Compression Techniques Image Compression Techniques Audio Compression Techniques Video Compression Techniques Reference Models for Multimedia Communication Standards and applications of Multimedia Communications Total Hours 1.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 6.0 4.5 39 Percentage 05 15 15 10 10 10 10 15 10 100 Percentage 10 10 10 30 40 100

Teaching Methods

Every student is to be present in all the classes. If any student is found to be absent in a class, he/she should justify his/her absence. All the students are to be attentive and upto date with their study. Every hour of classroom teaching has to be backed up by adequate private study so that the students can acquire reasonable proficiency in the specific areas of the course. Teachers are required to get feedback from the students after the class. The classes should be in interactive process so that the students need to know how to ask question to make more reciprocal. Lecture sheets will be provided but students are advised to read text books along with lecture sheets. There will be five class tests and one power point presentation, average will be considered. Three assignments will be given which should be submitted on due dates. Recommended Books 1. Ellen Kayata, Wireless Multimedia Communications 2. D. Comer. Computer Networks and Internets. Prentice Hall. 3. F. Halsall. Data Communications, Computer Networks and Open Systems. Addison Wesley. 4. D. Comer. Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume 1, Third edition. Prentice-Hall, 1995.