Table of Contents

1. Introduction to multimedia networking; 2. Digital speech coding; 3. Digital audio coding; 4. Digital image coding; 5. Digital video coding; 6. Digital multimedia broadcasting; 7. Multimedia quality of service of IP networks; 8. QoS issues in streaming architectures; 9. Wireless broadband and QoS; 10. Multimedia over wireless broadband; 11. Digital rights management of multimedia; 12. Implementation of multimedia networking.

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This authoritative guide to multimedia networking balances just the right amount of theory with practical design and integration knowledge.

About the Author

Jenq-Neng Hwang is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle. He has published over 200 technical papers and book chapters in the areas of image/video signal processing, computational neural networks, multimedia system integration and networking. A Fellow of the IEEE since 2001, Professor Hwang has given numerous tutorial and keynote speeches for various international conferences, as well as short courses in multimedia networking and machine learning at universities and research laboratories.