Multimedia Networking: Technology, Management, and Applications [Hardcover]

Syed Mahbubur Rahman (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 24, 2001

In recent years rapid Internet growth has pushed the development of new multimedia applications in all aspects of life such as entertainment, communication, collaborative work and electronic commerce. Future applications will make use of different technologies like voice, data and video, but in order to make such a wide variety of multimedia applications successful, a number of technology and management issues must be addressed. Multimedia Networking: Technology, Management and Applications addresses the dynamic and efficient uses of resources – a fundamental aspect of multimedia networks. Geared toward professionals, educators and students alike, this exciting new book will detail current research and the future direction of multimedia networking.

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We are witnessing an explosive growth in use of multiple media forms (voice, data, images and video etc.) in varied application areas including entertainment, communication, collaborative work, electronic commerce and university courses. The increasing computing power, integrated with multimedia and telecommunication technologies, is bringing into reality our dream of real time, virtually face-to-face interaction with collaborators sitting far away from us. In the process of realizing our technological ambitions, we need to address a number of technology, management and design issues. We need to be familiar with exciting current applications. It is impossible to track the magnitude and breadth of changes that the multimedia and communication technology is bringing daily to us in many different ways throughout the world. Consequently this book presents an overview of the expanding technology beginning with application techniques that lead to management and design issues. Our goal is to highlight major multimedia networking issues, understanding and solution approaches, and networked multimedia applications design. Because we wanted to include diverse ideas from various locations, chapters from professionals and researchers from about thirteen countries working in the forefront of this technology are included. This book has nineteen chapters, which include the following major multimedia networking areas.

• Development and management of real time distributed multimedia applications • Audio/video applications and streaming issues • Protocols and technologies for building Internet multimedia applications • QOS frameworks and implementation • Collaborative applications • Multimedia synchronization in distributed environment • Multicasting technology and applications • Use of mobile multimedia over wireless network.

The chapters in this book address the dynamic and efficient usage of the resources, which are the fundamental aspects of multimedia networks and applications. This book also details some current research, applications and future research directions. The following paragraphs are intended to put together the abstracts from each chapter in a manner to provide an overview of the topics covered.

About the Author

Syed Mahbubur Rahman is currently a professor at the Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA. He worked in several other institutions around the world including NDSU in USA (1999), Monash University in Australia (1993-98), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET, 1982-92) and Ganz Electric Works in Budapest (1980-82) etc. He was the head of the department of Computer Science and Engineering of BUET from 1986 to 1992. He is co-chairing and is involved as a program/organizing member in a number of international conferences. He obtained his doctoral degree from Budapest Technical University in 1980. He supervised more than 30 research projects leading to masters and ph.d degrees. His research interests include electronic commerce systems, multimedia computing and communications, image processing and retrieval, computational intelligence, pattern recognition, distributed processing and security. He has published 100+ research papers in his areas of interest.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 498 pages
• Publisher: Idea Group Pub (December 24, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930708149
• ISBN-13: 978-1930708143
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,525,504 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Broad panorama of multimedia networking, August 13, 2002

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Jurgen Stauder (France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Multimedia Networking: Technology, Management, and Applications (Hardcover)

This book contains a collection of 19 contributions of different experts in multimedia networking covering a very large field of technologies and applications.

It covers technologies from signal processing (audio, video, 3D-scenes) networking (CORBA, multimedia webcast, communications, wireless 3G networks, Internet protocols, traffic shaping, QoS) and systems (databases, admission control).

Addressed applications include collaborative environments, videoconferencing, medical teleconsultation, video broadcast, multimedia web retrieval, scheduling, jitterless audio transmission, lip reading and wireless multimedia.

The contrubutions in this book give two type of information: First, basic technologies of multimedia networking are introduced and reviewed in tutorial sections. Second, the variety of applications and contexts give an insight how basic technologies are put into practice, combined together and
optimized for a given problem.

This book enrichs people at begin of technical carreer by showing how scholar knowledge is related to real applications. The book supports multimedia networking specialists in enlarging their horizon to get a more complete view of their field of work.

4.0 out of 5 stars Multimedia Networking and Applications, August 5, 2002

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Mark T. Maybury (Chelmsford, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Multimedia Networking: Technology, Management and Applications (Digital)

Multimedia, the synergistic use of text, audio, and video in a variety of interactive devices, promises to enable new ways to learn, work, govern, and play. Just what combinations and/or applications of media will work effectively and/or efficiently remains to be discovered. This nineteen chapter collection draws upon a diverse set of international contributors from thirteen countries working in the forefront of this technology. This chapters in this book address many dimensions of multimedia networking and begin to illuminate many of the underexplored multimedia opportunities. Multimedia Networking: Technology, Management and Applications addresses a broad range of topics ranging from technical issues such as multimedia protocols and synchronization in distributed environments to the high level applications that multimedia infrastructures and networks will enable such as multimedia collaboration and mobile multimedia communication and computation over wireless networks. This book can be valuable to students, researchers, and professionals learning about, working in, or researching multimedia networking.

Depending upon the reader's background and/or objectives, the book offers a very broad introduction to the topic. If the reader is a network engineer, they will find most chapters that address issues of quality of service, multicasting for efficient bandwidth utilization, and mobile multimedia over wireless network. On the other hand, if the reader is an application developer, they will find reports on Internet multimedia applications, multimedia collaboration, and electronic commerce. The interdependencies between the higher level multimedia applications and underlying networking infrastructure is made explicit by having these diverse perspectives appear within a single collection. Accordingly, this text will find readership in academic, industrial and government settings for a number of purposes including education, research, and innovation.