Multimedia Networks: Protocols, Design and Applications (Hardcover)

The transportation of multimedia over the network requires timely and errorless transmission much more strictly than other data. This had led to special protocols and to special treatment in multimedia applications (telephony, IP-TV, streaming) to overcome network issues. This book begins with an overview of the vast market combined with the user’s expectations. The base mechanisms of the audio/video coding (H.26x etc.) are explained to understand characteristics of the generated network traffic. Further chapters treat common specialized underlying IP network functions which cope with multimedia data in conjunction which special time adaption measures. Based on those standard functions these chapters can treat uniformly SIP, H.248, High-End IP-TV, Webcast, Signage etc. A special section is devoted to home networks which challenge high-end service delivery due to possibly unreliable management. The whole book treats concepts described in accessible IP-based standards and which are implemented broadly. The book is aimed at graduate students/practitioners with good basic knowledge in computer networking. It provides the reader with all concepts of currently used IP technologies of how to deliver multimedia efficiently to the end user. 

多媒體在網路上的傳輸比其他資料更需要及時且無誤的傳輸。這導致了特殊的協議和在多媒體應用（電話、IP電視、串流）中對網路問題的特殊處理。本書首先概述了廣大的市場以及使用者的期望。解釋了音/視頻編碼的基本機制（如H.26x等），以了解生成的網路流量的特性。接下來的章節介紹了處理多媒體數據的常見專用底層IP網路功能，以及特殊的時間適應措施。基於這些標準功能，這些章節可以統一處理SIP、H.248、高端IP電視、網絡廣播、標誌等。書中還專門介紹了家庭網路，由於可能存在不可靠的管理，這對高端服務提供帶來了挑戰。整本書介紹了基於IP的可訪問標準中描述的概念，並且這些概念已被廣泛實施。本書針對具有良好的計算機網絡基礎知識的研究生/從業人員，為讀者提供了如何高效地將多媒體傳遞給最終用戶的所有IP技術概念。