Multimedia Communication Systems: Techniques, Standards, and Networks

Description

Multimedia is usually recorded and played, displayed or accessed by information content processing devices; such as computerised and electronic devices. It can also be part of a live performance. Multimedia also describes electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia (as an adjective) also describes electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content. The term “rich media” is synonymous for interactive multimedia.

A computer network is an interconnection of various computer systems located at the same or different places. The interconnection is done through a communication link known as the physical layer of the network and this link is totally transparent to the users of the network. The transparency of the communication link is brought about by the interfacing software known as protocols, which enables a user in one location to freely access a computer system/database/process/software in another location. Such a subject includes so many different technologies, hardware devices and protocols.

Networking is the term that describes the processes involved in designing, implementing, upgrading, managing and working with networks and network technologies. Depending on the application, the communication tasks to be performed vary in complexity and at times can even be contradictory. The market offers very different networks and bus systems that are tailored to a specific application.
This is an excellent book of multimedia signal processing and also deals with the optimisation of multimedia communication systems by an author who is proficient in this field.