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By: S.Mohan Jain, H. Häggman
ISBN: 1402063512
Publisher: Springer
Release Date: 23 October, 2007
Bioscience book rank: 1577619
By: Golden G. Richard III
ISBN: 0071379592
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Release Date: 21 June, 2002
Bioscience book rank: 1093446
By: Barton D. Schmitt
ISBN: 158110281X
Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
Release Date: May, 2008
Bioscience book rank: 1624699
By: Vladimir V. Didenko
ISBN: 0896039528
Publisher: Humana Press
Release Date: 01 May, 2002
Bioscience book rank: 1573709
By: Learning Express
ISBN: 1576851451
Publisher: Learning Express (NY)
Release Date: 01 January, 1998
Bioscience book rank: 1172764
By: Fred Halsall
ISBN: 0201398184
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Release Date: 24 September, 2000
Bioscience book rank: 603484
This has pretty much become the standard text in graduate courses on multimedia systems over the last six years. Its main focuses are the individual technologies involved in multimedia systems with an emphasis on compression standards and the various types of networks involved in multimedia systems and their advantages in each case. Its emphasis is on engineering, not software algorithms, thus there is more prose than math in the compression chapters, and the chapter on the Internet is placed in the book three chapters before the one on transport protocols. The book is starting to show its age, since there is a whole chapter on ATM, which has been displaced by Fast Ethernet for a number of years. Also, there is no discussion of wireless networks and their place in multimedia systems, and the chapters on Internet Applications and the World Wide Web are looking very aged and in need of an update at this point. In summary, if you need a book that emphasizes protocols and standards, this might be a good choice. If you are looking for a book on capacity planning in multimedia systems or a more modern book on networks as they are employed in multimedia systems, this book is not recommended. The following is the table of contents: <br /> <br />1. Multimedia Communications <br />2. Multimedia Information Representation <br />3. Text and Image Compression <br />4. Audio and Video Compression <br />5. Standards for Multimedia Communications <br />6. Digital Communication Basics <br />7. Circuit-switched networks <br />8. Enterprise Networks <br />9. The Internet <br />10. Broadband ATM Networks <br />11. Entertainment Networks and High-Speed Modems <br />12. Transport Protocols <br />13. Application Support Functions <br />14. Internet Applications <br />15. The World Wide Web

After seing the previous reviews giving full marks to this title I felt compelled to make some remarks. The book does cover a great deal of material and should be very useful. However, besides the usaual typos and stuff there are several passages in this book that are really bad since they are nowhere near a correct description of the topic. For example sections 3.3.4 and 3.3.5 on LZ and LZW coding. Totally mixed up... (They dont even mention that there are TWO very different LZ algorithms ie LZ77 and LZ78, they just describe some strange mixture of them without any foundation in reality...). Same thing on pg 883-884 with regards to recursive and iterative name resolution. Wrong, plain and simple. Compare their description to any DataComm textbook and you'll see. However these parts are written informatively and with figures and examples making it all very believable. And this is the big problem for me. How can I be sure that other parts of the book, which cover material I am not so familiar with, does not contain more of this false and erroneous descriptions....

I have got this book along with quite a few more on Multimedia. I am VERY happy with this title, I can easily select it as the bext text available to date. The book is quite complete and brings a good number of exercises. The companion web-site allows one to get material which makes it easier to prepare a course based on this title. I have very sucessfully adopted this book on a pos-graduated course on Multimedia Systems (with the aid of additional material as well).<p>I would recommend Addison Wesley to make this book more broadly available though (I ordered my copy from Amazon.com but for some students it is desirable to find it in local bookstores too).
By: David Edwards
ISBN: 1588296539
Publisher: Humana Press
Release Date: 07 January, 2008
Bioscience book rank: 1640674
By: Roger J. Miles, Robin A. J. Nicholas
ISBN: 0896035255
Publisher: Humana Press
Release Date: 15 July, 1998
Bioscience book rank: 1468234
By: Warren A. Weinberg, Caryn R. Harper, Roger A. Brumback
ISBN: 1550091611
Publisher: B.C. Decker Inc.
Release Date: 01 July, 2001
Bioscience book rank: 1431035
By: Michael Zachariou
ISBN: 1588296598
Publisher: Humana Press
Release Date: 30 November, 2007
Bioscience book rank: 1680551
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