Media Networks: Architectures, Applications, and Standards (Hardcover)

A rapidly growing number of services and applications along with a dramatic shift in users’ consumption models have made media networks an area of increasing importance. Do you know all that you need to know?

Supplying you with a clear understanding of the technical and deployment challenges, Media Networks: Architectures, Applications, and Standards covers media networks basics, architectures, protocols, standards, specifications, advanced audiovisual and multimedia services, and future directions. Focusing on video and audio-visual services, it provides wide-scale reference on media networks and the audiovisual domain.

The book investigates the different network architectures along with their related protocols and standards. It examines the different digital TV technologies as well as their deployment architectures. Illustrating the role of network operators, service providers, content providers, and manufacturers, this timely reference is divided into three parts:

1. Presents digital TV technologies, including Open IPTV, Mobile TV, 3D video, and content delivery networks
2. Covers media content delivery and quality of experience (QoE)
3. Examines user-centricity and immersive technologies that take into account advanced services personalization, immersive technologies architectures and applications, e-health, and societal challenges

The book considers emerging media content delivery architectures including Future Internet, CDN (Content Delivery Networks) architectures and Content Centric Networks (CCN) approaches, while examining the technical challenges and standardization efforts related to such issues. It presents the Quality of Experience (QoE) in Future Internet/ Next Generation Mobile Networks and also covers the management of media (audio/video) information in Future Internet, including transport protocols and compression technologies. The book concludes by describing pressing societal challenges for networked media.

隨著服務和應用程式的快速增長，以及使用者消費模式的劇變，媒體網絡已成為一個日益重要的領域。您是否了解所有必要的知識呢？

《媒體網絡：架構、應用和標準》提供了對技術和部署挑戰的清晰理解，涵蓋了媒體網絡的基礎知識、架構、協議、標準、規範、高級音視頻和多媒體服務，以及未來的發展方向。該書專注於視頻和音視頻服務，為媒體網絡和音視頻領域提供了廣泛的參考。

該書研究了不同的網絡架構及其相關的協議和標準。它探討了不同的數字電視技術以及它們的部署架構。通過說明網絡運營商、服務提供商、內容提供商和製造商的角色，這本及時的參考書分為三個部分：

1. 介紹數字電視技術，包括開放式IPTV、移動電視、3D視頻和內容傳遞網絡。
2. 講解媒體內容傳遞和使用體驗（QoE）。
3. 探討以用戶為中心的和沉浸式技術，包括高級服務個性化、沉浸式技術架構和應用、電子健康和社會挑戰。

該書還考慮了新興的媒體內容傳遞架構，包括未來互聯網、內容傳遞網絡架構和內容中心網絡方法，同時研究了與這些問題相關的技術挑戰和標準化工作。它介紹了未來互聯網/下一代移動網絡中的使用體驗（QoE），並涵蓋了未來互聯網中媒體（音/視頻）信息的管理，包括傳輸協議和壓縮技術。該書最後描述了網絡媒體面臨的迫切社會挑戰。