CMPSCI 691:
Multimedia Networking
Fall 1995
Course Description

CMPSCI 691B: Multimedia Networking
Professor Jim Kurose
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachu setts/Amherst
Fall 1995

Course Description: In this seminar course we will examine network/operating system technologies and open research issues in the area of multimedia networking. Because networked multimedia applications will require high speed networks, the first half of this course covers the two most important high speed network architectures: ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) networks and the next generation Internet. In the second half of the course we examine the problem of providing quality of service guarantees (both within the network and within the end system) to networked multimedia applications, survey on-going research efforts in networked multimedia, and examine selected networked multimedia applications.

Prerequisites: previous courses in computer networks, operating systems, and probability.

Textbook: ATM Networks, Concepts, Protocols, Applications by Handel, Huber, Schroder. Addison Wesley, 1994.

Class Readings: a bound copy of additional class readings is available from the Paper House (University Dr., next to Bell's Pizza)

Coursework: All students enrolled in this course for credit will be expected to complete the following coursework:

• Maintain a journal regarding course readings. For each topic covered (roughly corresponding to a class), your journal entry will consist of a short summary of the material covered, a discussion of that you found most interesting in the reading, what you found most confusing in the reading, and any directions you see for extending the material covered.

• Make one or more class presentations and lead the discussion regarding that material. Presentations will be made using overhead transparencies. A student making a presentation will be expected to meet with the instructor a week before the scheduled presentation to review his/her overheads. A copy of the postscript file for the overheads will be posted on the class WWW site two days before the scheduled class.

• Complete a semester project. The project will be chosen in consultation with the instructor. A project might consist of doing readings in an area not covered by the course and writing a survey paper; it might consist of delving much more deeply into an area that we only covered briefly in class; it might consist of performing original work which extends ideas encountered in class. Your interests should guide you in choosing a semester project.

  Depending on the scope of the project, students may wish to team up and work together.

Class Web Site. The class will maintain a WWW site. You're here!