Multimedia Networking Technologies, Protocols, & Architectures

Iván Vidal is Visiting Professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, in the Department of Telematics Engineering. He received his telecommunication engineering degree from the University of Vigo (Spain), and the Ph.D. in telematics engineering from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Madrid, Spain). Dr. Vidal has published over 40 research papers in conferences and international journals and magazines, including IEEE Communications Magazine. Ignacio Soto received a telecommunication engineering degree and a Ph.D. in telecommunications from the University of Vigo, Spain. He is currently an associate professor in telematics engineering.

Part I. Introduction to multimedia networking: Motivation and objectives, An overview of multimedia networking; Part II. Internet telephony: Fundamentals of Internet telephony, Playout mechanisms, Loss recovery techniques, Multimedia Transport Protocols: RTP, SCTP, QUIC; Signaling protocols: from SS7 to H.323/SIP, Control Architectures: IMS; Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA): Radius, Diameter; Policy and Charging Control, Web real-time communications: WebRTC; Part III. Video-on-demand: Fundamentals of Video-on-Demand (VoD), Controlling the delivery of multimedia content: RTSP, Transport of information and control using HTTP: the basics of HTTP, HTTP 2.0, EPG, HTTP streaming, adaptive streaming, N-PVR, etc., Scalable content dissemination: Peer-to-Peer (P2P), Content Delivery Networks (CDN); Part IV. Live IPTV: Fundamentals of live IPTV, Multipoint delivery services: IP multicast; User Generated Content (UGC).