Information Technology

Transmission, Processing and Storage

By: Stephen Weinstein

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Hardcover | 6 August 2008 | Edition Number 393

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Here is a thorough, not-overly-complex introduction to the three technical foundations for multimedia applications across the Internet: communications (principles, technologies and networking); compressive encoding of digital media; and Internet protocol and services. All the contributing systems elements are explained through descriptive text and numerous illustrative figures; the result is a book well-suited toward non-specialists, preferably with technical background, who need well-composed tutorial introductions to the three foundation areas. The text discusses the latest advances in digital audio and video encoding, optical and wireless communications technologies, high-speed access networks, and IP-based media streaming, all crucial enablers of the multimedia Internet.

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A Background for Networked Digital Media	p. 1
Protocol Layering and an Introduction to Network Addresses and Ports	p. 2
What Is Multimedia?	p. 4
Multimedia Exchanges	p. 6
Consumer-Oriented Applications	p. 11
Multimedia Computing and Devices	p. 20
Digital Video Display Formats	p. 26
Liquid Crystal Display Technology	p. 29
Storage Technologies and Requirements	p. 30
The Physical Fundamentals: Sinusoids, Frequency Spectra, and Bandwidth	p. 32
Frequency and Bandwidth-Related Operations	p. 34
Analog to Digital Media Conversion	p. 39
The Sampling Theorem	p. 40
Digitization and Pulse Code Modulation	p. 41
Digitized vs. Synthesized Media	p. 44
Quality of Service Criteria	p. 46
Digital Coding of Audio and Video	p. 51
The Alternatives and Tradeoffs of Digital Coding	p. 53
Lossless Entropy Coding	p. 56
Huffman Coding	p. 56
Arithmetic Coding	p. 57
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)	p. 59
The TIFF, AIFF, and WAF File Formats	p. 60
Facsimile Compressive Coding	p. 63
Transform-Domain Coding: The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)	p. 64
Transform-Domain Coding: Wavelet Decomposition	p. 67
JPEG Still Image Coding	p. 72
JPEG 2000 Still Image Coding	p. 76
Compressive Video Coding	p. 78
Motion JPEG and Digital Video	p. 79
H.261 and H.263 Conferencing Video	p. 81
MPEG	p. 85
Levels of Containment: I, P and B Frames, the Group of Pictures, and Macroblocks	p. 88
Intra- and Inter-Picture Compressive Coding	p. 89
The MPEG-2 Systems Layer	p. 93
MPEG Audio Coding: MP-3 and AAC	p. 97
MPEG-4	p. 101
Scene Description, Data Streams, and Encoding	p. 101
MPEG-4 Systems Level	p. 105
H.26L	p. 107
DivX	p. 110
MPEG-21	p. 110
Digital Television and the :Grand Alliance" HDTV System	p. 113
Media Encoding Systems and Communications Capacity	p. 119
Communication Networks and Technologies	p. 121
Network Categories	p. 122
The DWDM Core Optical Network	p. 125
Opaque and Transparent Optical Nets, and Hierarchical Switching	p. 128
SONET and IP Traffic	p. 131
Circuit, Packet, and Cell-Switched Communication	p. 134
Circuit-switched Communication	p. 135
Packet-Switched Communication and Routing	p. 136
Asynchronous Transfer Mode	p. 138
Computer Communication Fundamentals	p. 143
Wired Local Networks	p. 147
IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet)	p. 148
IEEE 1394	p. 152
Modulation Techniques	p. 155
Linear Modulation Formats and FM	p. 155
Spread Spectrum: Frequency-hopping, Direct Sequence, and UWB	p. 157
QAM - A Closer Look	p. 160
DMT/OFDM - A Closer Look	p. 162
Trellis-Coded Modulation and Turbo Codes	p. 167
Wired Access Networks	p. 170
xDSL	p. 171
Cable Data Systems	p. 174
DOCSIS Medium Access Control	p. 177
Power-Line Access Networking	p. 181
Wireless Networking	p. 182
3G/4G Cellular Mobile Systems	p. 188
IEEE 802.20 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access	p. 192
MIMO Antennas and Space-Time Codes	p. 193
IEEE 802.16 Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network "WiMax"	p. 198
IEEE 802.11 "WiFi"	p. 201
Modulation in 802.11a,b,g,n	p. 202
MAC for Access and QoS	p. 204
Bluetooth	p. 208
Zigbee/IEEE 802.15.4	p. 210
The Future of Broadband Communication	p. 211
Internet Protocols, Services, and Software	p. 213
Internet History and Physical Architecture	p. 215
Basic Internet Services	p. 220
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)	p. 221
The Internet Protocol (IP)	p. 222
IPv4	p. 225
IPv6	p. 228
TCP and UDP	p. 231
Internet QoS Services	p. 236
Differentiated Services (DiffServ)	p. 237
DiffServ Classes and PHB Groups	p. 238
The Service Level Specification (SLS) and Traffic Conditioning	p. 240
Integrated Services (IntServ)	p. 244
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)	p. 247
The World Wide Web	p. 251
The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)	p. 252
Hypermedia and Markup Languages	p. 255
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)	p. 257
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)	p. 261
XHTML	p. 264
Voice XML	p. 266
WAP, XHTMLMP and WML	p. 267
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)	p. 269
XML DTD, Schema and Other Features	p. 271
IP Mobility	p. 273
Mobile IP	p. 274
Application-Layer Mobility	p. 275
Cellular IP	p. 276
Object-Based Software Technologies	p. 277
JAVA and C#	p. 279
CORBA and SOAP	p. 281
Networked Services Environments	p. 286
OpenCable Applications Platform	p. 289
Media Protocols and Applications	p. 293
Voice over IP (VoIP)	p. 294
Multimedia Conferencing Protocol H.323	p. 300
Megaco/H.248	p. 305
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)	p. 309
Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTM)	p. 313
LDAP and H.350 Directory Services	p. 314
Reservation Protocol (RSVP)	p. 315
Real-Time Protocol (RTP)	p. 318
Media Streaming and the Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)	p. 324
Media Streaming Modes	p. 325
RTSP	p. 327
Session Definition Protocol (SDP)	p. 328
RTSP Operation	p. 329
Real-Time Streaming Systems	p. 335
Video on Demand Streaming: Server Systems	p. 335
Internet Broadcasting	p. 342
Commercial Streaming Systems	p. 345
RealNetworks' Streaming System	p. 346
Microsoft Windows Media 9	p. 352
The Apple QuickTime System	p. 354
The Digital Fountain Media Streaming System	p. 357
Looking to the Future	p. 360
References	p. 361
Index	p. 375
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