The multimedia networks and storage course covers a broad range of topics in the frontier of multimedia networking systems with focus on transmission techniques and protocols, massive storage architectures and data security. Topics include concepts of multimedia systems, resource management issues in distributed/networked multimedia systems, QoS routing and multicasting, traffic shaping, task and message scheduling, internet QoS, adaptive multimedia applications over internet, operating system support for multimedia, characteristics of multimedia data, storage architecture and scalable media servers, processor architectures for multimedia, compression techniques, synchronization techniques, jitter management, error control and loss recovery, video-on-demand, voice-over-IP, wide area caching systems and techniques, encryption and group key management.