CSE 534 Multimedia Systems Design
Spring 2000
Teaching Assistant: Venkatesh Sarangan
Course Goals:
This course is an introduction and overview to Multimedia Systems. It will provide an introduction to Multimedia Information Coding and Compression, Video/Image Databases, Multimedia Networks, Traffic Analysis, and Scheduling.Prerequisites:
This is an advanced course which puts together material from varied fields such as Computer Networks, Information Theory and Image Processing. The student is expected to have taken CSE589 or an equivalent course. Familiarity with OPNET is a necessity for the project work.Required text: "Multimedia Communications - Protocols & Applications" by Franklin Kuo, Wolfang Efflesberg and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, PRENTICE HALL, 1998. ISBN 0138569231
Reference text:
Project 1
Project 2
The second project is available here. Please meet Dr. Acharya or the TA if you have any doubts in the project. The references for the project have been made availabe in Making Copies.Evaluation
The evaluation will be based on two programming projects (fairly large), one mid-term, final, small programming assignments and a class presentation. One of the projects will be using OPNET. The students are expected to have a fair knowledge about the package, especially considering the fact that CSE589 is a pre-requisite. For the projects students could work in groups of 2. For the presentations, groups of 4 or 5 would be formed (to be decided later). All the assignments are to be done individually.Homeworks
The first homework is due on Feb 14 and the questions
are here . The solutions to the
first assignment are
here . With special thanks to
the
student who
pointed it out, the answer to the first part in problem 3 is 2Mb
and not 4 Mb as the solution says. Please meet the TA if you have any
difficulty in understanding the solution.
The second homework is due on March 2 and the
questions are here . The
solutions are
here and please let the TA
know
if there are any mistakes in the solution.
Mid Term
The mid term questions are here . The exam is due in
class on March 20.
Topics for Presentation
Suggested topics (but not limited to) for the class
presentation are given below. Each presentation will have a duration of 40
mins; Each presentation will be made by a group of 3 students. All the
students of a group will be awarded the same points based on the group's
presentation. The students should form groups on their own and choose any
one of the following topics. Please mail the TA atleast THREE CHOICES in
decreasing order of your preference. The topics will be awarded on a FCFS
basis. We have around 30 students and hence we have around 10
presentations. The presentations should start on April 10.
Also note that since we have only 40 minutes for each topic, limit the
number of slides (around 25 or so). We are not looking for intricate
details; If a group is able to convey what is the crux of their topic, it
would be a good work.
Please contact the TA about 2 days in advance to your talk and give a
.ps format of your slides. The students who would be presenting on the
given topics and the order in which the presentations will be made are
listed below. Please note that the presentations begin on
April 10. On April 10, we will have ONLY the first presentation. In the
following weeks we will have the subsequent presentations. The groups that
have
a ? in them should include corresponding number of students.
Course Contents Under Multimedia networks, we would primarily deal with the Internet and
ways of transmitting real-time data through it. We would not deal with ATM and
the like as these are dealt in detail in other courses. The topics to be
discussed are most likely to be:
Academic Integrity As a good rule of thumb, you may discuss any problem in the course
as long as no one is using a writing implement (computers included)
nor looking at any source code for the assignment. That is, any group
work must be verbal only. Obviously you may look at the textbook or
class handouts/class notes together. One exception to this rule is that
when a friend is having trouble with a small bug, and you notice a
typo or other "silly little mistake", you may point it out to them. More
substantive assistance is definitely not allowed, from any source
whatsoever, including tutors or friends not enrolled in the course. The
professor or teaching assistants will be able to give more help if you
are stuck with concepts.
All academic work must be your own. Collaboration, usually
evidenced by unjustifiable similarity in assignments, is never allowed.
After an appropriate informal review, if any students are found in
violation of maintaining academic integrity, sanctions will be
imposed, which can be as severe as receiving an F in the course.
Especially flagrant violations will be considered under formal review
proceedings, which can call for harsher sanctions including expulsion
from the University. If you ever have any questions or concerns
regarding the policy, particularly as it relates to this course, see your
instructor.
If you are interested in presenting any other topic, please meet the TA or
Prof. Acharya.
The lectures will be used to introduce the above topics to the students; Some
of them like RSVP, Traffic modeling etc. will be covered in certain
depth. To cover the above topics in nitty-gritty detail would be difficult,
students will be assigned specific topics from the above list for their
presentation.