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M.Tech. Degree Exa uary 20lI

Multimedia Goni cation
Time: 3 hrs.
iV{ax. Marks:100
Note: Answer any FIVE
full
questions.
1 a. Explain the five basic types of communication networks, that are used to provide multimedia
communication services.
(10 Marks)
b. Explain with the help of an example, generic three categories of multimedia applications.
(10 Marks)
2 a. Discuss the application
QoS
parameters that relate to the network. (10 Marks)
b. With the help of signal properties and quantization procedure, explain the digitization
principles.
(10 Marks)
3 a. Explain how graphics systems work, with the help of simple graphics primitives and
architecture.
(10 Marks)
b. Calculate the bit rate that is generated by the digitization procedure in each case. Calculate
the memory required to store a l0 minute passage of stereophonic music.
i) Assuming the bandwidth of a speech signal is from 50Hzthrough to l0 KLlz and that
of a music signal is from 15 Hz through 20 KHz.
ii) Assuming the Nyquist sampling rate is used with 12 bits/sample for the speech signal
and 16 bits/sample for the music signal.
(10 Marks)
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(10 Marks)
(10 Marks)
4 a. Explain the run length encoding and static Huffman coding.
b. Explain theH.261 video compression standard.
5 a. A digitized video is to be compressed using the MPEG
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I standard. Assuming a 'frame
sequenceof:IBBPBBPBBPBBI.......andaveragecompressionratiosofl0:l(I),
20 : I (P) and 50 : I (B), derive the average bit rate that is generated by the encoder for both
the NTSC and PAL digitization formats.
(10 Marks)
b. Explain the coding of audiovisual objects along with overview of MPEG
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4. (10 Marks)
6 a. Explain the MPE G
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4 video coding and decoding, with the help of a general diagram.
(10 Marks)
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(10 Marks)
(10 Marks)
(20 Marks)
b. Discuss MPEG
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2l multimedia framework.
7 a. Explain the architecture of JPEG 2000.
b. Discuss overview of muitimedia transport, across ATM networks.
8 Write short notes on the following :
a. Real-time transport protocol (RTP)
b. Real-time transport control protocol (RTCP)
c. Multimediaconferencing
d. YIA video signal (NTSC).
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