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 | | By: S.Mohan Jain, H. Häggman ISBN: 1402063512 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 23 October, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 1577619
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 | | By: Golden G. Richard III ISBN: 0071379592 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Release Date: 21 June, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 1093446
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![]() | | By: Barton D. Schmitt ISBN: 158110281X Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics Release Date: May, 2008 Bioscience book rank: 1624699
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 | | By: Vladimir V. Didenko ISBN: 0896039528 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 01 May, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 1573709
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 | | By: Learning Express ISBN: 1576851451 Publisher: Learning Express (NY) Release Date: 01 January, 1998 Bioscience book rank: 1172764
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 | | 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:
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<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
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 | | By: Roger J. Miles, Robin A. J. Nicholas ISBN: 0896035255 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 15 July, 1998 Bioscience book rank: 1468234
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 | | 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
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 | | By: Michael Zachariou ISBN: 1588296598 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 30 November, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 1680551
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