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- Behcet Sarikaya,
- Professor, Computer Communications Laboratory
- ATM is accepted to be the networking technology of the future. We
are setting up an ATM network in the Computer Communications
Laboratory. This lab will contain an ATM switch and many workstations
connected to this switch. Also there will be a direct connection with
the ATM switch to be installed at the Multimedia Research Center of
the University of Aizu.
- Video transmission
is presently done using certain standardized compression techniques. MPEG is
the most commonly used standard. MPEG standard gets improved constantly. The
present version is MPEG-2. Standardization organizations
are presently working on MPEG-4, a low bit-rate version of MPEG
audio-visual coding algorithm. We did some research on MPEG-4 to be
used on Personal Communication Systems (PCS). This research
concentrated on the data rate aspects of multimedia
transmission. Mobility aspects will be studied in the future.
- Course Preparation. We have prepared two sets of course material,
one on Multimedia Networking and the other on Multimedia
Synchronization Techniques. A set of transparencies have been prepared
and these transparencies can be used as teaching material.
Japanese and Overseas Scientists Invited During Fiscal Year 1995:
- Prof. Omar Rafiq, Pau University, Pau, France, Canada.
- Behdad Forghani, Hewlett-Packard, Protocol Test Center, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada.
- Jan deMeer, GMD-FOKUS, Berlin, Germany.