Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Multimedia Communication Systems is a comprehensive guide to the theory, principles, and practical techniques associated with implementing next-generation networked multimedia communications systems. It brings together key advances in multimedia architecture; MPEG standards; audio-visual integration; multimedia processing; storage and retrieval; service deployment; network and traffic management; QoS; and much more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book provides a comprehensive coverage of various current issues relating to video delivery over ATM networks. It addresses the fundamentals of the major topics of video communication over ATM networks: asynchronous transfer mode technique, scalability, MPEG digital video standards, quality of service and multimedia communication...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)