| Introduction, Applications | |
| Networking Technologies (LAN, MAN, WLAN, HAN, WAN, ATM, IP) | |
| Multimedia to the home (DSL, cable,wireless,...) | |
| Image, Video and Audio Compression | |
| Multimedia Synchronization | |
| Multimedia and the Internet: IP and other protocols, QoS provision, Mobile IP, WAP, applications | |
| Multimedia conferencing and collaboration tools | |
| e-commerce and Security issues | |
| Digital Watermarking for Multimedia | |
| Virtual Reality and Collaborative Virtual Environments & applications |
Detailed Outline Part
I:
Introduction
Recent history of multimedia technologies
Business and home multimedia applications
Multimedia networking Market
Networking Technology for Multimedia
Local Area Networks (LAN):
"legacy" LANs (Ethernet, Token Ring)
FDDI, FDDI-II
Switched Ethernet
Isochronous Ethernet (IEEE 802.9)
Fast Ethernet (100 Mbps)
100 VG-AnyLAN
Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE 802.3z)
Wireless LANs and Wireless Personal Area Networks
IEEE 802.11
Bluetooth
IEEE 802.15
HomeRF
Wide Area Networking (WAN)
Key WAN Services for Multimedia
Bridges and Routers
X.25 and Frame Relay
ATM Networking
Brief review of N-ISDN, B-ISDN , ATM.
Adaptation layer (AAL) for different ATM classes of service
ATM comparisons with other technologies
Multimedia to the Home
Access Technologies: Telephone, DSL, Cable, Wireless cable
Fiber-in-the-loop, Fiber-to-the-home, Hybrid Fiber-coax
Digital Image and Video Compression in Multimedia Communications
Compression needs in Multimedia
Video services, bandwidth and storage needs
Image and video coding standards: JPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4,
MPEG-7,
H.261, H.263
Software Compression/Decompression
Multimedia Synchronisation
Basic synchronization concepts and methods
Synchronization Quality of Service (QoS) Parameters
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
Detailed Outline Part
II:
Multimedia and the Internet
OSI reference model
Internet Protocols: TCP, UDP, IP, IPv6
Mobile IP
Unicast, Broadcast, Multicast
Protocol requirements for multimedia
RSVP
Real Time Transport protocol (RTP, RTCP)
QoS provisioning over IP networks: IntServ, DiffServ
Internet telephony, Internet Fax
WWW, HTML, XML, Java
Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
Government concerns on Web usage
Wiresess Internet and Wireless application Protocol (WAP)
Multimedia conferencing and collaboration tools
Conferencing standards
Conferencing market evolution
Conferencing systems
Tele-collaboration tools
e-Commerce and e-Security
Cryptography
Public key Encryption
Secure Sockets Layer, SHTTP, IPSec,SMIME
Secure Electronic Transactions (SET)
Attacks on e-security
Digital Watermarking for Multimedia
Classification of watermarks
Image, video, audio and text watermarking techniques
Virtual Reality as a new Medium
Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
Java3D
Distributed Virtual Environments
High-Level Architecture (HLA) : A new OMG standard for
distributed
simulations
Applications in industrial training, e-commerce, tele-collaboration
Lecturer's biography
Nicolas D. Georganas is Canada Research Chair in Information
Technology and Distinguished University Professor, Multimedia
Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab),School of Information
Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada. He has
been leading multimedia application development projects since
1984. He was General Chair of the ACM Multimedia 2001 (Ottawa),
IEEE Multimedia Systems'97 Conference (ICMCS97)(June 1997, Ottawa)and
Technical Program Chair of the IEEE COMSOC MULTIMEDIA'89 (Montebello,
Canada) and of the ICCC Multimedia Communications'93 Conference (Banff,
Canada). He has served as Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on
Selected Areas in Communications, issues on"Multimedia
Communications" (1990) and on "Synchronization Isssues
in Multimedia Communications" (1996). He is on the editorial
boards of the journals Multimedia Tools and Applications, ACM/Springer
Multimedia Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, Performance
Evaluation, Computer Networks, Computer Communications, and was
an editor of the IEEE Multimedia Magazine. He is Fellow of IEEE,
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the
Enginering Institute of Canada and Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada. In 1998, he was honored as the University of Ottawa
Researcher of the Year and also received the University 150th
Anniversary Gold Medal for Research. In 1999, he received the T.W.Eadie
Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, funded by Bell Canada, for
contributions to Canadian and International Telecommunications.
In 2000, he received the J.C.Smith Medal of the Engineering
Institute of Canada, the A.G.L.McNaughton Medal of IEEE Canada,
the OCRI Presidents's Award, the Bell-Canada-Forum Award of the
Corporate-Higher Education Forum, the TeleLearning Researcher
Achievement Award and a Canada Research Chair. In 2001, he
received the Order of Ontario and in 2002, the Killam Prize for
Engineering, Canada's highest prize.
He has given Multimedia short course/tutorials at:
-Pont.Univ. Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile [April 1995][sponsored
by NORTEL][55 persons]]
-Newbridge Netw. Co., Ottawa, [Febr. 1996] [17 persons]
-SIMTEL'96, Univ. Tech. F. Santa Maria, Santiago, Chile [May 1996][sponsored
by NORTEL] [50 persons]
-IEEE Intern. Conf. on Multimedia Comp. and Sys. (ICMCS'96),
Hiroshima, Japan [June 1996] [30 persons]
-ACM Multimedia'96, Boston, [Nov. 1996] [20 persons](excellent
evaluations)
-ACM Multimedia'97, Seattle [Nov. 1997][25 persons](excellent
evaluations)
-ICCC'97, Cannes, France [Nov. 1997] [20 persons]
-CRC, Ottawa [Dec. 1997][50 persons]
-Intern. Conf. on Telecomunications (ICT'98), Chalkidiki, Greece,
June 1998 [10 persons]
-IEEE Intern. Communications Conference (ICC'99), Vancouver,
Canada, June 1999 [20 persons]
-ACM Multimedia'99, Orlando [Nov. 1999] [20 persons](excellent
evaluations)
-ACM Multimedia'2000, Los Angeles [Oct.2000] [22 persons]
-ACM Multimedia'2001, Ottawa [Oct.2001]