The Multimedia Internet

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Springer Science & Business Media, Mar 30, 2005 - Computers - 383 pages

Here is a thorough, not-overly-complex introduction to the three technical foundations for multimedia applications across the Internet: communications (principles, technologies and networking); compressive encoding of digital media; and Internet protocol and services. All the contributing systems elements are explained through descriptive text and numerous illustrative figures; the result is a book well-suited toward non-specialists, preferably with technical background, who need well-composed tutorial introductions to the three foundation areas. The text discusses the latest advances in digital audio and video encoding, optical and wireless communications technologies, high-speed access networks, and IP-based media streaming, all crucial enablers of the multimedia Internet.

 

Contents

A BACKGROUND FOR NETWORKED DIGITAL MEDIA
1
11 PROTOCOL LAYERING AND AN INTRODUCTION TO NETWORK ADDRESSES AND PORTS
2
12 WHAT IS MULTIMEDIA?
4
13 MULTIMEDIA EXCHANGES
6
14 CONSUMERORIENTED APPLICATIONS
11
15 MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND DEVICES
20
151 Digital Video Display Formats
26
152 Liquid Crystal Display Technology
29
382 MIMO Antennas and SpaceTime Codes
193
383 IEEE 80216 Wireless Metropolitan Area Network WiMax
198
384 IEEE 80211 WiFi
201
3841 Modulation in 80211abg
202
3842 MAC for Access and QoS
204
385 Bluetooth
208
386 ZigbeeIEEE 802154
210
39 The Future of Broadband Communication
211

153 Storage Technologies and Requirements
30
SINUSOIDS FREQUENCY SPECTRA AND BANDWIDTH
32
161 Frequency and Bandwidthrelated Operations
34
17 ANALOG TO DIGITAL MEDIA CONVERSION
39
171 The Sampling Theorem
40
172 Digitization and Pulse Code Modulation
41
173 Digitized vs Synthesized Media
44
18 QUALITY OF SERVICE CRITERIA
46
DIGITAL CODING OF AUDIO AND VIDEO
51
21 The Alternatives and Tradeoffs of Digital Coding
53
22 Lossless Entropy Coding
56
222 Arithmetic Coding
57
223 FLAC Free Lossless Audio Codec
59
23 The TIFF AIFF and WAV File Formats
60
24 Facsimile Compressive Coding
63
The Discrete Cosine Transform DCT
64
Wavelet Decomposition
67
27 JPEG Still Image Coding
72
28 JPEG 2000 Still Image Coding
76
29 Compressive Video Coding
78
291 Motion JPEG and Digital Video
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292 H261 and H263 Conferencing Video
81
210 MPEG
85
I P and B Frames the Group of Pictures and Macroblocks
88
2102 Intra and InterPicture Compressive Coding
89
2103 The MPEG2 Systems Layer
93
MP3 and AAC
97
2105 MPEG4
101
21052 MPEG4 Systems Level
105
21053 H26L
107
21054 DivX
110
2107 Digital Television and the Grand Alliance HDTV System
113
211 Media Encoding Systems and Communications Capacity
119
COMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES
121
31 NETWORK CATEGORIES
122
32 THE DWDM CORE OPTICAL NETWORK
125
321 Opaque and Transparent Optical Nets and Hierarchical Switching
128
322 SONET and IP Traffic
131
33 Circuit Packet and CellSwitched Communications
134
331 CircuitSwitched Communication
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332 PacketSwitched Communication and Routing
136
333 Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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34 Computer Communication Fundamentals
143
35 Wired Local Networks
147
351 IEEE 8023 Ethernet
148
352 IEEE 1394
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36 Modulation Techniques
155
FrequencyHopping Direct Sequence and UWB
157
363 QAM A Closer Look
160
364 DMTOFDM A Closer Look
162
365 Trelliscoded Modulation and Turbo Codes
167
37 Wired Access Networks
170
371 xDSL
171
372 Cable Data Systems
174
3721 DOCSIS Medium Access Control
177
373 Powerline Access Networking
181
38 Wireless Networking
182
381 3G4G Cellular Mobile Systems
188
3811 IEEE 80220 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access
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INTERNET PROTOCOLS SERVICES AND SOFTWARE
213
41 Internet History and Physical Architecture
215
42 Basic Internet Services
220
421 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions MIME
221
43 The Internet Protocol IP
222
431 IPv4
225
432 IPv6
228
44 TCP and UDP
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45 Internet QoS Services
236
451 Differentiated Services DiffServ
237
4511 DiffServ Classes and PHB Groups
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4512 The Service Level Specification SLS and Traffic Conditioning
240
452 Integrated Services IntServ
244
46 MultiProtocol Label Switching MPLS
247
47 THE WORLD WIDE WEB
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471 The HyperText Transfer Protocol HTTP
252
48 Hypermedia and Markup Languages
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481 Hyper Text Markup Language HTML
257
482 extensible Markup Language XML
261
4821 XHTML
264
4822 VoiceXML
266
4823 WAP XHTMLMP and WML
267
4824 Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language SMIL
269
4825 XML DTD Schema and Other Features
271
49 IP Mobility
273
491 Mobile IP
274
492 ApplicationLayer Mobility
275
493 Cellular IP
276
410 ObjectBased Software Technologies
277
4101 Java and C
279
4102 CORBA and SOAP
281
4103 Networked Services Environments
286
4104 OpenCable Application Platform OCAP
289
MEDIA PROTOCOLS AND APPLICATIONS
293
51 Voice over IP VoIP
294
52 Multimedia Conferencing Protocol H323
300
53 MegacoH248
305
54 Session Initiation Protocol SIP
309
541 Stream Control Transport Protocol SCTP
313
542 LDAP and H350 Directory Services
314
55 Reservation Protocol RSVP
315
56 RealTime Protocol RTF
318
57 Media Streaming and the RealTime Streaming Protocol RTSP
324
571 Media Streaming Modes
325
572 RTSP
327
5721 Session Definition Protocol SDP
328
5722 RTSP Operation
329
58 RealTime Streaming Systems
335
582 Internet Broadcasting
342
59 Commercial Streaming Systems
345
591 RealNetworks Streaming System
346
592 Microsoft Windows Media 9
352
593 The AppleQuickTime System
354
594 The Digital Fountain Media Streaming System
357
510 Looking to the future
360
REFERENCES
361
INDEX
375
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