Multimedia Processing and Communication (block C-opt)

2 YEAR I semester  6 CFU
Tommaso Rossi

Cesare Roseti

ICT and Internet Engineering
A.Y. 2023-24
Code:
SSD: ING-INF/03

FORMATIVE OBJECTIVES

The course module provides an overview of the technologies involved in the multimedia application evolution from analogue to digital, from linear television to video on demand. To this aim, the module addresses the main TV standards, the TCP/IP protocols involved in modern streaming services, the network architectures and the different service modes.

PREREQUISITES: A good background in TCP/IP protocols.

SYLLABUS:

PARTE I – Digital TV standards, MPEG-2  and  Transport Stream, IP encapsulation over  DVB.

PARTE II – IP multicast, IGMP, IP multicast routing

PARTE III –  Transport protocols for IP multimedia applications; Video streaming applications and CDN, the multimedia protocol stack, RTP and RTCP, multimedia signalling protocols: RTSP, SDP and SIP, Key Performance Indicators.

PARTE IV -Adaptive Streaming over HTTP, MPEG-DASH, Support to multimedia applications over 5G.