Understanding networked multimedia : applications and technology / Francois Fluckiger.
By: Fluckiger, François
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BookPublisher: Harlow, England : Prentice Hall, 1995Description: xxix, 620 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0131909924.Subject(s): Multimedia systems | Computer networksDDC classification: 006.7 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 006.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00075133 |
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Exceptionally comprehensive tutorial approach this introduction/guide/reference explores the full panorama of networked multimedia applications and the underlying computer and networking technology. It focuses specifically on the theory and applications of networked multimedia digital systems in terms of several basic questions: What is multimedia? What can be done with multimedia today and in the future? How can it be done? Why does it have to be done that way?
Bibliography: (pages 605-611) and index.
Part I: Setting the scene -- What is multimedia? -- Integrating digital information -- Text, graphics, images, video, animation, sound -- Introduction to the enabling technologies -- Why is multimedia so popular? -- Part II: Multimedia applications -- Taxonomy of multimedia applications -- Audio-video interpersonal applications -- Shared workspace for CSCW -- Audio-video distribution in the workplace -- Audio-videoconferencing -- Multimedia electronic mail and multimedia document transfer -- Multimedia server-based applications -- Networked hypertext and hypermedia -- World-wide web: Towards a universal information hyperspace -- Virtual reality -- Part III: Networking requirements of multimedia applications -- What is a network? -- Network features and performances -- Networking requirements of audio and motion video -- Other requirements -- Part IV: Networking solutions for multimedia -- Clarifying several networking aspects -- LANs as multimedia carriers -- Packet WANs as multimedia carriers -- Circuit WANs as multimedia carriers -- ATM WANs as multimedia carriers -- Frame Relay and SMDS as multimedia carriers -- Concluding remarks on LAN and WAN evolution -- Part V: Encoding and compression -- Basic digitizing techniques -- Principles of compression techniques -- Audio compression -- Image and TV compression.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- How to Use This Book
- Frequently Asked Questions about Networked Multimedia
- I Setting the Scene
- 1 What Is Multimedia?
- Basics: Analog Signals to Represent Information
- 2 Integrating Digital Information
- In-Depth: Digitization, Sampling, and Quantization
- 3 Digital Text, Graphics, Images, Video, Animation, Sound
- Basics: Text in Computing
- Basics: State of the Art in Speech Recognition
- 4 Introduction to the Enabling Technologies
- 5 Why Is Multimedia So Popular?
- Basics: What Are Technology Push and Market Pull?
- In-Depth: An Assessment of Certain Multimedia Fields
- In-Depth: Elements of Multimedia Market Forecasts
- II Multimedia Applications
- 6 Taxonomy of Multimedia Applications
- In-Depth: Other Taxonomies
- 7 Audio-Video Inter-Personal Applications
- In-Depth: Comments on the Use of ISDN
- 8 Shared Workspace for CSCW
- In-Depth: Telepointers
- 9 Audio-Video Distribution in CSCW
- 10 Audio-Videoconferencing
- In-Depth: Codecs, Codecs, and Codecs
- 11 Multimedia Electronic Mail and Multimedia Document Transfer
- Basics: The Successive Implementation Steps of Electronic Mail
- 12 Multimedia Server-Based Applications
- In-Depth: Multimedia News-on-Demand -- Two Test Cases
- 13 Hypermedia
- 14 World-Wide Web: Towards a Universal Information Hyperspace
- In-Depth: World-Wide Web Specifications and Protocols
- 15 Virtual Reality
- Basics: Perception of Distance and Depth
- Basics: Three-dimensional Sound
- III Networking Requirements of Multimedia Applications
- 16 What Is Meant by Network?
- Basics: Caches and Mirrors
- 17 Network Features and Performances
- In-Depth: CRS and FEC
- 18 Networking Requirements of Audio and Motion Video
- Basics: Delay Equalization
- In-Depth: Studio-Quality Digital TV
- 19 Other Requirements
- IV Networking Solutions for Multimedia
- 20 Clarifying Several Networking Aspects
- Basics: Isochronism, Asynchronism, Synchronism
- 21 LANs as Multimedia Carriers
- Basics: Ethernet and Token Passing Ring Principles
- In-Depth: Cables for LANs
- 22 Packet WANs as Multimedia Carriers
- Basics: A Brief Description IP Multicasting Functioning
- 23 Circuit WANs as Multimedia Carriers
- 24 ATM WANs as Multimedia Carriers
- 25 Frame Relay and SMDS as Multimedia Carriers
- 26 Concluding Remarks on LAN and WAN Evolution
- V Encoding and Compression
- 27 Basic Digitizing Techniques
- Basics: Luminance, Lightness, Brightness
- Basics: Representations of Colors and Video Cameras
- 28 Principles of Compression Techniques
- 29 Audio Compression
- 30 Image and TV Compression
- Epilogue
- Sociological Implications of Multimedia
- Twenty Key Messages
- Final Word
- Bibliography