COMP 435: Multimedia Technologies Report a Broken Link

Unit 1


Required Readings
ACM Special Interest Group, Multimedia (acmsigmm) Education

Contains links to study materials in subjects which are not considered multimedia themselves, but have strong influences on multimedia. Familiarity with one or more of these support areas is a necessary prerequisite to discovering solutions to problems that are unique to the field of multimedia.

Rowe, Lawrence A. and Ramesh Jain. ACM SIGMM Retreat Report on Future Directions of Multimedia Research. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Vol. 1, No. 1 February 2005, pp. 3 - 13.
Supplementary Readings
Microsoft Developer Network Bitmap Header Types

Unit 2


Required Readings
Micrsoft Developer Network. About Bitmaps
Microsoft Developer Network. Device-Independent Bitmaps

Unit 5


Required Readings
Oram, Andy A Nice Way to Get Network Quality of Service? Accessed June 25, 2008.
RTP News
Cisco Systems. DiffServ -- The Scalable End-to-End QoS Model White paper on QoS signaling. Published on Cisco website: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/hmpgs/index.html
Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP). Various articles.
Serif, T. , S.R. Gulliver, & G. Ghinea. Infotainment Across Access Devices: the Perceptual Impact of Multimedia QoS 2008. In the ACM Portal, published by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Burgstahler, L., et al. Beyond Technology: The Missing Pieces for QoS Success

2003. The ACM Portal, published by the Association for Computing Machinery.

Supplementary Readings
RTP News. Articles about RTP.

Unit 7


Supplementary Readings
Patney, R. and Jain R. (2007). Scheduling in WiMAX Networks. Presented at WiMAX Forum AATG F2F Meeting, Washington DC, April 26, 2007.
IEEE Computer Society (2005). IEEE Standard for Information technology—Telecommunications and information exchange between systems—Local and metropolitan area networks— Specific requirements. Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications. Amendment 8: Medium Access Control (MAC) Quality of Service Enhancements.

Unit 8


Required Readings
Lee, Sin-Joo, & Sung-Hwan Jung. A Survey of Watermarking Techniques Applied to Multimedia ISIE 2001, Pusan, Korea.
Bhattacharya, S. et. al. A Survey on Different Video Watermarking Techniques and Comparative Analysis with Reference to H.264/AVC. IEEE 2006
Supplementary Readings
Asterisk Project An open source telephony toolkit.