Introduction to Multimedia Communications Applications, Middleware, Networking,9780471467427

Introduction to Multimedia Communications Applications, Middleware, Networking

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780471467427
ISBN10: 0471467421
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-01-03
Publisher(s): Wiley-Interscience
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Summary

A comprehensive resource on multimedia communications. Covers recent trends and standardization activities in multimedia communications, such as layered structures, underlying theories and the current best design techniques. Describes the convergence of various technologies including communications, broadcasting, information technology, and home electronics, and emerging new communication services and applications resulting from the growth of the Internet and wireless technologies. Please go to www-ee.uta.edu/dip for additional information. An Instructor Support FTP site is available from the Wiley editorial department.

Author Biography

K. R. RAO, PhD, is Professor of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Rao, along with two colleagues, developed and introduced the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) in 1975, widely used in digital signal processing. He has authored and edited numerous books and published extensively in leading engineering journals.

ZORAN S. BOJKOVIC, PhD, is Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He has coauthored two books with Dr. Rao.

DRAGORAD A. MILOVANOVIC, is a PhD candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Table of Contents

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Acronyms.
1. Introduction.
2. Multimedia Communications.
3. Frameworks For Multimedia Standardization.
4. Application Layer.
5. Middleware Layer.
6. Network Layer.
Index.

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