| Lecturer | Professor Henning
Schulzrinne (schulzrinne [at] cs.columbia.edu) |
| Staff | Charles Q.
Shen (Course Manager) 212-854-5599
Please contact the course manager via email
(charles [at] cs.columbia.edu)
for all course related questions.
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| Day, time and place:
| Pre-taped |
| Call number:
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| Credits for course:
| 3 |
| CVN: |
yes |
| Prerequisites:
| The course requires a solid background in computer networks (e.g.,
CS4119; may be taken concurrently) and programming experience (C and/or
Java, Unix). Experience with Java or Tcl/Tk might be helpful for some
projects, but is not required.
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| Description:
| In the last few years, the Internet has moved beyond the three
"classical" services of email, file transfer and remote login. This course
covers emerging Internet multimedia services, their technical background
and open issues in depth. The course will cover the following areas:
- Internet architecture review
- Multicast routing and address allocation
- Properties of real-time services
- Resource reservation and differentiated services
- Packet scheduling
- Audio and video coding
- Audio and video APIs: Unix, Java Media Framework
- Streaming audio and video
- Adaptive applications
- Internet telephony
- Media-on-demand and content distribution networks (CDNs)
- Conference control
- Mobility (mobile IP and other technologies)
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| Recommended texts (not required):
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Jon Crowcroft, Mark Handley, Ian Wakeman, Internetworking
Multimedia, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999. ISBN
1-55860-584-3. The online
version appears to be similar, but may not be identical.
Kevin Jeffay and HongJiang Zhang, Readings
in Multimedia Computing and Networking, Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 2001. (Discount if ordered from the publisher's web site.)
Details about readings are available,
if you want to obtain the papers from your engineering library.
In addition, chapters from a book in progress will be provided.
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| Reference text(s):
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- James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, Computer
Networking -- A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet,
Addison-Wesley, 2000.
- Bruce S. Davie, Larry L. Peterson, and David Clark, Computer
Networks: A Systems Approach, Morgan Kaufman, 1999. ISBN
1-558605142.
- Stephen A. Thomas, IPng and the TCP/IP Protocols, Wiley,
1995. ISBN
0-471-13088-5.
- Colin Perkins, RTP: Audio and Video for the Internet,
Addison-Wesley, 2003. ISBN
0-672-32249-8
- W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1,
Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN
0-201-63346-9
- Olivier Hersent, David Gurle, Jean-Pierre Petit, IP
Telephony, Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN
0-201-61910-5.
- Richard J. Simon, Windows 95 Multimedia & Odbc Api Bible,
Waite Group, 1996. ISBN
1-571690115
 Amazon.com seems to give better prices
than local bookstores.
You can find the best price from sites such as bestedeal.com, mysimon.com or smartshopper.com.
You can print several slides on one page using fineprint.
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| Homework(s):
| Ten homework assignments, each including questions and
programming problems. Solutions will be made available via the cvn student center web site.
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| Project(s):
| During the semester, in parallel with the homework assignments, you
will complete an Internet telephone and radio in stages, including audio
input and output, packet encapsulation, call setup and multicast. Time and
resources permitting, we may also add video input.
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| Late policy:
| Assignments will generally be due at midnight on Sundays. You have
four (4) grace days for the semester. If you run out of grace days, 10% of
your score will be deducted for each 24-hour period that the assignment is
late, up until the time that a solution is announced. There are no
fractional grace days or late penalties.
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| Paper(s):
| See "Project(s)"
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| Midterm exam:
| Guidelines
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| Final exam:
| 2.5 hours, closed book; sample exams for 1996, 1998, 2000
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| Grading:
| Assignments 50%, midterm 25%, final exam 25%
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| Hardware requirements:
| Internet access; Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris machine with C, C++ and
Java compiler and the usual programming tools (debugger, tcpdump). You may
use Windows 2000 or NT, but we won't be able to answer questions about
audio interfaces. It is strongly recommended that you apply for a Columbia
Computer Science account. A standard CUNIX account is not
sufficient.
If you are programming off campus, you need to
have a machine with audio capability and non-firewalled access to the
Internet for some of the assignments. |
| Software requirements:
| Unix C/C++ development environment.
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| Homework submission:
| Homework Submission Guidelines |