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: 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: With the rapid evolution of multimedia communications, engineers and other professionals are generally forced to hoard a plethora of different texts and journals to maintain a solid grasp on essential ideas and techniques in the field...read more