Ralf Steinmetz And Klara Nahrstedt Multimedia Systems 13.pdf
This article provides an overview of the book Multimedia Systems by Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt, which is a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the field of multimedia systems and applications. The book covers the basic characteristics of multimedia operating systems, networking and communication, and multimedia middleware systems. It also discusses the quality of service, media server, networks, communication, group communication, and synchronization issues in multimedia systems. The book is suitable for students, researchers, and practitioners who want to learn more about the theory and practice of multimedia systems.
Book Information
Authors
Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Publication Date
2004
ISBN
978-3-662-08878-4
Pages
466
Series
X.media.publishing
Book Summary
The book is divided into eight chapters, each focusing on a different aspect of multimedia systems. The first chapter introduces the basic concepts and definitions of multimedia systems, such as media types, media formats, media characteristics, media processing, media presentation, and media quality. The second chapter deals with the quality of service (QoS) requirements and mechanisms for multimedia systems, such as QoS models, QoS parameters, QoS architectures, QoS negotiation, QoS adaptation, QoS monitoring, and QoS management. The third chapter describes the multimedia operating systems that support the execution of multimedia applications, such as multimedia scheduling algorithms, multimedia memory management, multimedia file systems, multimedia device drivers, and multimedia security. The fourth chapter discusses the media server design and implementation issues, such as data placement strategies, data retrieval methods, data caching techniques, data replication schemes, data consistency protocols, and data recovery mechanisms. The fifth chapter covers the networks that enable the transmission of multimedia data over different types of networks, such as local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), wireless networks, mobile networks, and Internet. The sixth chapter explains the communication protocols that provide the end-to-end delivery of multimedia data over networks, such as transport protocols, streaming protocols, session protocols, application protocols, error control techniques, congestion control algorithms, and QoS-aware and adaptive protocols. The seventh chapter focuses on the group communication services that support the collaboration and interaction among multiple users in multimedia systems, such as group addressing schemes, group membership protocols, group coordination algorithms, group synchronization methods, and group security mechanisms. The eighth chapter addresses the synchronization issues that arise in the presentation of multiple media streams in multimedia systems, such as synchronization models, synchronization methods, synchronization standards, synchronization metrics, synchronization skew control techniques.
Ralf Steinmetz And Klara Nahrstedt Multimedia Systems 13.pdf