Framework for online distance learning based on multimedia network

• Main Author: Lim, Woon Hoon.
• Other Authors: Sng, Hock San
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer applications::Computers in other systems
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/13145
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This dissertation describes a framework for Online Distance Learning Based On Multimedia Network. It examines the characteristics of the applications and their requirements as well as provide an evaluation of the performance of existing network infrastructures in order to assess their suitability to multimedia traffic. The existing multimedia network applications are studied and compared with the framework that will be based on new emerging digital video technologies and multimedia networking to facilitate on-line interactive learning, on-line video lectures and seminars, and lecture on demand to students at their desktop computers over local and wide area networks. New functionality has been studied, proposed and contrasted with existing framework to uncover important general features of successful multimedia network use in multimedia application.