The objective of the course is to give to the students the elements to understand the principles behind the various standards (both for codec design and transport protocols) so that they will be able to understand performance and requirements.
At the end of the course, it is expected that the student will know
- Concepts of information and compression
- Techniques to achieve a tradeoff between compression and user-perceived quality
- The characteristics of a modern telecommunications network
- Network architecture and protocols for content distribution networks.
- Profesor: LORENZO FAVALLI