PESIT Bangalore South Campus

Hosur Road (1 K.M. before Electronic City), Bangalore-100

Electronics and Communication Department

Multimedia Communications
Subject Code: 10EC841 IA Marks: 25
No. of Lecture Hrs. / Week: 04 Class: 8th ECE A&B
Total No. of Lecture Hrs. 52 Max. Marks: 100
Name of the Faculty: Sastry R Dept: E&C

No. of Chapter title/Reference Topics to be covered % of Portions to be

Class literature covered
Hrs. Reference Cumulative
chapter

PART - A
1-5 UNIT 1
Introduction
Multimedia
MULTIMEDIA information representation
COMMUNICATIONS:
Multimedia networks,
9.6% 9.6%
Text 1: 1.1 to 1.5. multimedia applications,
media types, communication
modes, network types
Multipoint conferencing,
network QoS application
QoS.
5-10 UNIT 2
Introduction

MULTIMEDIA Digital principles

INFORMATION 9.6% 19.20%
REPRESENTATION: Text, images, audio, video
Text 1 : 2.1 to 2.6

10-16 UNIT 3
Introduction

TEXT AND IMAGE Compression Principles

COMPRESSION: 11.54% 30.74%
Text Compression
Text 1 : chapter 3.1 to 3.4
Image Compression

16-24 UNIT 4 Introduction

AUDIO AND VIDEO
COMPRESSION:
Text 1: chapter 4.1 to 4.3
audio compression - DPCM,
ADPCM, APC, LPC
video compression - H.261,
H.263, MPEG, MPEG-1, 15.38% 46.12%
MPEG-2, and MPEG-4.
 PESIT Bangalore South Campus
Hosur Road (1 K.M. before Electronic City), Bangalore-100
Electronics and Communication Department

PART - B

24-32 UNIT 5 Introduction

LANs - Ethernet, Token ring,
MULTIMEDIA Bridges, FDDI
INFORMATION
NETWORKS:
High-speed LANs 15.38% 61.5%
LAN protocols
Text 1: Chapter 8.1 to 8.8

32-40 UNIT 6 Introduction

THE INTERNET: IP Datagrams, Fragmentation,

IP Address,
Text 1: Chapter 9.1 to 9.10 ARP and RARP
QoS Support, IPv6. 15.38% 76.8%
40-46 UNIT 7 Introduction
Cell format
BROADBAND ATM Switch and
NETWORKS: Protocol Architecture
Text 1: Chapter 10.1 to 10.5
ATM LANs 11.54% 88.42%

46–52 UNIT 8 Introduction,

TRANSPORT PROTOCOL:
TCP/IP, TCP, UDP
Text 1: Chapter 12.1 to 12.5 11.54%
100%
RTP and RTCP

TEXT BOOK:
1. Multimedia Communications: Applications, Networks, Protocols and
Standards, Fred Halsall, Pearson, Second Indian reprint 2002.

REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Multimedia Information Networking, Nalin K. Sharda, PHI, 2003.
2. “Multimedia Fundamentals: Vol 1 - Media Coding and Content
Processing”, Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Narstedt, Pearson Education, 2004.
3. “Multimedia Systems Design”, Prabhat K. Andleigh, Kiran Thakrar, PHI,
2004.