Multimedia Communications and Networking (Hardcover)

The result of decades of research and international project experience, Multimedia Communications and Networking provides authoritative insight into recent developments in multimedia, digital communications, and networking services and technologies. Supplying you with the required foundation in these areas, it illustrates the means that will allow for improved digital communications and networks.

The book starts with a review of the fundamental concepts, requirements, and constraints in networks and telecommunications. It describes channel disturbances that can hinder system performance—including noise, attenuation, distortion, and interferences—and provides transmission techniques for mitigating these limitations. Analyzing both cable and wireless transmission mediums, the book describes the network protocol architecture concept and includes coverage of twisted pairs, coaxial and optical fiber cables, wireless propagation, satellite communications, and terrestrial microwave systems. Facilitating the understanding required to participate in the development of current and next generation networks and services, this comprehensive reference:

• Examines the range of network interconnections and WAN/MAN technologies, including synchronous optical networks (SONET), synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH), and third and next generation cellular systems (3G and 4G)
• Describes local area network (LAN) theory and technology, including data link layers and virtual LANs
• Explores network and transport layers, such as addressing, routing protocols, and IPv4 and IPv6 algorithms
• Covers TCP/IP services and applications
• Investigates different authentication and cryptographic systems, including digital signature, SSL, TLS, IPSEC, and public key infrastructure

Walking you through the planning, design, and development of multimedia, telecommunications, and networking systems, the book provides a quick and easy way to develop and refine the skills required in the field. It clearly explains the principles and corresponding techniques you need to know to implement network security. The many examples and end-of-chapter questions also make it suitable for undergraduate and graduate-level computer science and electrical engineering courses.

經過數十年的研究和國際項目經驗，多媒體通信與網絡提供了對多媒體、數字通信和網絡服務和技術的最新發展的權威見解。它為您提供了在這些領域中所需的基礎，並說明了將實現改進數字通信和網絡的手段。

本書首先回顧了網絡和電信中的基本概念、要求和限制。它描述了可能妨礙系統性能的信道干擾，包括噪聲、衰減、失真和干擾，並提供了減輕這些限制的傳輸技術。分析了電纜和無線傳輸介質，本書描述了網絡協議架構概念，包括雙絞線、同軸電纜和光纖電纜、無線傳播、衛星通信和地面微波系統。本書便於理解當前和下一代網絡和服務的發展所需的知識，是一本全面的參考資料，具體包括：

- 檢視網絡互連和廣域網/都會區網技術，包括同步光纖網絡（SONET）、同步數字階層（SDH）和第三代和第四代蜂窩系統（3G和4G）
- 描述局域網（LAN）理論和技術，包括數據鏈路層和虛擬局域網（VLAN）
- 探討網絡和傳輸層，如地址分配、路由協議和IPv4和IPv6算法
- 覆蓋TCP/IP服務和應用
- 研究不同的身份驗證和加密系統，包括數字簽名、SSL、TLS、IPSEC和公鑰基礎設施

本書引導您進行多媒體、電信和網絡系統的規劃、設計和開發，提供了一種快速和簡便的方式來發展和完善該領域所需的技能。它清晰地解釋了實施網絡安全所需的原則和相應技術。許多示例和章末問題也使其適用於本科和研究生的計算機科學和電氣工程課程。