Prerequisite: NES 460
This course covers a broad range of topics in the frontier of multimedia computing and networking systems, focusing on transmission techniques and protocols, massive storage architectures and data security. Especially, this course covers rate and flow control, jitter management, error control and loss recovery, quality-of-service, video-on-demand, voice-over-IP, teleconferencing, multimedia over wireless networks, wide area caching systems and techniques, encryption and group key management.