Multimedia Communications Directions and Innovations [Hardcover]

The rapid advances and industry demands for networked delivery of information and pictures through computer networks and cable television has created a need for new techniques and standards for the packaging and delivery of digital information. Multimedia Communications presents the latest information from industry and academic experts on all standards, methods and protocols. Internet protocols for wireless communications, transcoding of Internet multimedia for universal access, ATM and ISDN chapters, videoconferencing standards, speech and audio coding standards, multi-casting and image compression techniques are included.

• Latest Internet protocols for wireless communications
• Transcoding of Internet multimedia for universal access
• ATM and ISDN chapters
• Videoconferencing standards
• Speech and audio coding standards
• Multi-casting
• Latest image compression techniques

Prefacexv
List of Contributorsxvii
Chapter 1:??Multimedia Communications: Source Representations,
Networks, and Applications1
Jerry D. Gibson
1.1Introduction 1
1.2Networks and Network Services 3
1.3Multimedia Sources 6
1.4Source and Destination Terminals 8
1.5Applications of Multimedia Communications Networks 9
1.5.1Video Streaming to Multiple Users10
1.5.2Videoconferencing11
1.6Conclusions12
1.7For Further Reading12
Chapter 2:??Future Telecommunication Networks: Traffic and Technologies13
Leonid G. Kazovsky, Giok-Djan Khoe, and M. Oskar van Deventer
2.1Key Technologies14
2.2Impact of Competition16
2.3Four Traffic Hypotheses17
2.3.1Hypothesis 1: Conventional Growth17
2.3.2Hypothesis 2: The Internet Age18
2.3.3Hypotheses 3 and l.