Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Masterat
Domeniul: Informatica
Programul de studii: Baze de date
Limba de predare: Română

SYLLABUS

I. Date generale
Codul	Disciplina	
MID1016	Multimedia streaming	

Semestrul	Ore: C+S+L	Categoria	Statutul	
4	2+0+1	specialitate	obligatorie	

II. Cadre didactice cu norma de bază în Universitate
Numele şi	Titlul	Gradul	Catedra	Tipul activităţii	
prenumele	ştiinţific	didactic		C	S	L	
BÖSZÖRMENYI László	DI Dr.	Prof.	Asociaţi	*			

Cadre didactice asociate
Numele şi	Titlul	Instituţia	Tipul	Tipul activităţii	
prenumele	ştiinţific		postului	C	S	L	
BÖSZÖRMENYI László	DI Dr.	Universitatea Klagenfurt, Austria					

III. Obiectivele disciplinei

•	Knowing the main topics related to the storage, transmission and processing of audiovisual data
•	Introducing multimedia standards from the MPEG family (MPEG-1,2,4,7,21) and the methodology of a standardization process carried out within a standardization body like ISO, ITU, IETF, etc.
•	Understanding principles and mathematical machinery behind audio and video encoding
•	Understanding the use of MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 semantical metadata in multimedia systems
•	Understanding the need and posibilities of adapting multimedia streams to different QoS characteristics
•	Knowledge of reatlime streaming protocols like RTP/RTCP and RTSP
•	Learning to design and build a reliable multimedia systems (audio/video encoder/decoder + multimedia streaming server + video player) like videoconferencing systems, VOD (Video on Demand) systems, VoIP (Voice over IP) systems, video broadcasting systems, etc. 

IV. Conţinutul disciplinei

•	Introduction to multimedia
•	Audio/Video Coding
•	Audio/Video Scenes and Objects -- MPEG-4
•	Multimedia Frameworks
•	Multimedia Servers
•	Multimedia Networking
•	Semantic Metadata -- MPEG-7
•	Multimedia Management -- MPEG-21
•	Adaptability in Distributed Multimedia Systems
•	Multimedia Applications

V. Bibliografie
1. Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt, Multimedia Systems
2. Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt, Multimedia Applications
3. Ian E.G. Richardson, Video Codec Design
4. Ian E.G. Richardson, H.264 and MPEG-4 Video Compression
5. JitaeShin, Daniel C. Lee, C.-C. JayKuo, Quality of Service for Internet Multimedia
6. Gordon Blair and Jean-Bernard Stefani, Open Distributed Processing and Multimedia
7. Andrew S.Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems, 2nd ed., Chapter 7
8. Dinkar Sitaramand and Asit Dan, Multimedia Servers
9. Harald Kosch, Distributed Multimedia Database Technologies Supported by MPEG-7 and MPEG-  21
10. Atul Puriand and Tsuhan Chen, Multimedia Systems, Standards and Networks
11. MPEG Standards (http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/)
12. Fernando C. N. Pereira, Touradj Ebrahimi, The MPEG-4 book, Ed. Prentice Hall, 2002
14. Ian Burnett, Fernando Pereira, Rik Van de Walle, Rob Koenen (eds.), The MPEG-21 book, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2006	

VI. Tematica activităţilor didactice pe săptămâni
1. Introduction [week 1]
1.1 What is multimedia?
1.2 What is a multimedia system?
1.3 What is a distributed multimedia system?
1.4 Multimedia as the IT-challenge of the next decade
2. Audio/Video Coding (1) - Basics, JPEG [week 2]
2.1 Basics
2.2 JPEG compression
3. Audio/Video Coding (2) - MPEG-1,-2 and AVC (MPEG-4) [week 3]
3.1 MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 compression
3.2 MPEG-4
4. Audio/Video Scenes - MPEG-4 [week 4]
4.1 MPEG-4 Objects
4.2. MPEG-4 Scene Composition
5. Multimedia Frameworks [week 5]
5.1 General principles and methodology
6. Multimedia Networking (1) [week 6]
6.1 QoS based services
6.2 Differentiated Services
6.3 Itegrated Services
6.4 Best-effort networks (IP)
7. Multimedia Networking (2) [week 7]
	7.1 Real Time Protocol (RTP) and Real Time Control Protocol (RTCP)
	7.2 RTP Profiles
	7.3 Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
	7.4 Session Description Protocol (SDP)
8. Multimedia Networking (3) [week 8]
	8.1 Basic Multimedia Systems
	8.2 Multimedia Middleware
9. Multimedia Servers [week 9]
7.1 File Systems
7.2 Indexing
7.3 Process Scheduling
7.4 Disk Scheduling
7.5 Data Placement
10. Metadata (MPEG-7), Universal Media Access (MPEG-21)  [week 10]
8.1 Feature Extraction
8.2 MPEG-7
11. Adaptability in Distributed Multimedia Systems [week 11]
11.1 System-and stream-level adaptation
11.2 Adaptation in severs
11.3 Adaptation in the network
12. Interoperable Multimedia Management [week 12]
12.1 MPEG-21
13. Multimedia applications [week 13]
13.1 State-of-the art
14. Multimedia applications [week 14]
13.2 Future

VII. Metode didactice folosite
Lectures, presentations, conversations, projects, exercises, individual study, homework assignments.

VIII. Evaluare
The final mark will be computed as a weighted mean between the mark obtained at an oral exam and the marks for the laboratory assignments received during the semester as follows:
•	70% oral exam
•	30% laboratory assignments during the semester

All university official rules with respect to student’s attendance of academic activities, as well as to cheating and plagiarism, are valid and enforced.

IX. Bibliografie suplimentară

	Data,							Titular curs,
								Prof.  BOSZORMENYI Laszlo