Quality of Service Management for Multimedia Applications

ELG 5125 - Course Notes  (Fall 2005)


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Prerequisites

A bacc in computer engineering or, more specifically, the following:

Course content

Note: some general slides shown in class can be found here .  

  1. Background: Introduction to software architecture and distributed systems  (2 lectures)
  2. Media encoding (2 lectures) [Lu: Chapters 2 and 3 ]  (see also Media Encoding course notes)
  3. Distributed multimedia applications and protocols (3 lectures) (see Multimedia Application Protocols )
  4. Quality of service - general principles  (1 lectures)
  5.  [S&N: Sections 2.2.1 - 4 and 2.4.2 - 3 ] (Course notes summary)
  6. QoS issues in operating systems  (2 lectures)
  7.   [S&N: Sections3.1.1 - 5 (not 3.1.5.6 and 7), Section 3.3.2 , Sections 2.4.5, Section 3.5] (Course notes summary)
  8. Multimedia servers  (1 lectures)
  9.    [Lu: Chapter 8 ] (Course notes summary)
  10. Quality of service in networks  (3 lectures) (see Network QoS )
  11. Global quality of service management (3 lectures) (see course notes )
  12. Networked multimedia synchronization (2 lectures)  [Lu: Sections 9.1 - 5 ; S & N: Section 8.1]
  13. Distributed systems management and directories (2 lectures)
  14. Other adaptation management issues (2 lectures)
  15. Presentation of student projects (4 lectures)

Last updated: September 5, 2005