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2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog 
    
2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

CIS 579 - Multimedia Networking

3 credits
Prerequisite: CIS 475 or 476, or equivalent Current techniques in multimedia communications and networking. The course presents the communication requirements of the different types of multimedia applications, the operation of the different underlying communication networks as multimedia carriers, and the communication protocols associated with these networks and gives an overview of the various quality-of-service models, real-time transmission issues, and compression techniques.