COMP 249 -- Advanced Distributed Systems: Multimedia Networking Fall 1999 TTh 9:30-10:45, SN 115 Instructor: Kevin Jeffay Office hours: By appointment. SN324, jeffay@cs.unc.edu Lab Manager: David Ott Office hours: By appointment SN153, ott@cs.unc.edu TA: Praveen Patnala Office hours: By appointment SN327, praveen@cs.unc.edu

Copies of Class Handouts

• Course outline & syllabus (8/19/99)

Homework Assignments

• Homework 1 -- Sockets refresher (Due 8/27 @ 12 noon)
• Homework 2 -- ADPCM audio CODEC (Due 9/14 @9:30am)
• Homework 3 -- Silence detection and performance measurement (Due 9/30 @9:30am)
• Homework 4 -- Implementing an RTP audio conference with minimal control (Due 11/5 @9:30am)
• Homework 5 -- Multicasting Experiments (Due 11/18 @9:30am)
• Homework 6 -- A robust Internet audio codec (Due 12/7 @9:30am)

Copies of Lecture Notes

• Lecture 0 -- Course Introduction
• Lecture 1 -- Multimedia Applications and User Requirements
• Lecture 2 -- The Audio Data Type
  (See also Henning Schulzrinne's cool page of compressed audio samples.)
• Lecture 3 -- The Video Data Type
• Lecture 4 -- Video Compression Algorithms
• Lecture 5 -- The Real-Time Transport Protocol RTP
• Lecture 6 -- The RTP Control Protocol RTCP
• Lecture 7 -- Multicast Basics
• Lecture 8 -- Multicast Routing and the MBONE Multicast Backbone
• Lecture 9 -- Performance of multimedia transmission on the Internet today
• Lecture 10 -- Best Effort Multimedia Networking -- Dealing with delay-jitter
• Lecture 11 -- Dealing with packet loss
• Lecture 12 -- Adaptive, Best Effort Congestion Control
• Lecture 13 -- The Integrated Services Architecture for the Internet
• Lecture 14 -- The Resource Reservation Protocol RSVP
• Lecture 15 -- Introduction to Packet Scheduling
• Lecture 16 -- The Differentiated Services Architecture for the Internet

What you have to look forward to when you graduate...

• Dilbert du jour.