MSP

Multimedia Services and Protocols

Objectives

• Have a global and critical view on the paradigms for programming network services.
• Understanding the concept, architectures and the current strategies of content distribution networks.
• Explain the fundamental concepts and models for group communications.
• Explain the requirements, characteristics and operation of multimedia services and networking.
• Explain the support that signaling protocols and real-time oriented protocols provide in the development of multimedia services.
• Implement solutions to establish multimedia services with or without real-time requirements.

Program

1. Introduction to Network Services
   • Service models
   • Content delivery networks: architectures and strategies
2. Group Communications
   • Communication models and content delivery algorithms
   • Solutions for dense and sparse environments
   • Membership management
3. Multimedia Content Services
   • Taxonomy of services
   • Protocolar solutions for multimedia services
   • Adaptive streaming protocols
   • Real-time multimedia services
4. End-to-end support protocols
   • Session management
   • Support for real-time
   • New transport protocols

Bibliography

• Ivan Vidal et al., “Multimedia Networking Technologies, Protocols, and Architectures”, Artech House, ISBN-13: 978-1-63081-378-9, January 2019.
• Hans W. Barz, Gregory A. Bassett, “Multimedia Networks: Protocols, Design and Applications” Wiley, January 2016.
• A. Johnston, “SIP: Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol”, Fourth Edition, Artech House Publishers, ISBN-13: 978-1608078639, October 2015.
• Ernesto Exposito, Advanced Transport Protocols: Designing the Next Generation, Wiley, ISBN: 978-1-118-57832-2, January 2013.
• Bogdan Ciubotaru, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, “Advanced Network Programming - Principles and Techniques”, Springer, ISBN (Hardcover): 978-1-447-16036-6, 2015.