Book description
This comprehensive reference supplies authoritative insight into recent developments in multimedia, digital communications, and networking services and technologies. It provides a review of fundamental concepts, requirements, and constraints in networks and telecommunications. It describes channel disturbances that hinder system performance and provides transmission techniques for mitigating these limitations. Analyzing both cable and wireless transmission mediums, the book describes the network protocol architecture concept and includes coverage of twisted pairs, coaxial and optical fiber cables, wireless propagation, satellite communications, and terrestrial microwave systems.
Table of contents
- Cover
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- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Author
- Chapter 1 An Introduction to Multimedia Communications and Networking
- Chapter 2 Network Protocol Architectures
- Chapter 3 Channel Impairments
- Chapter 4 Cable Transmission Mediums
- Chapter 5 Wireless Transmission Mediums
- Chapter 6 Source Coding and Transmission Techniques
- Chapter 7 Advanced Transmission Techniques to Support Current and Emergent Multimedia Services
- Chapter 8 Cellular Communications
- Chapter 9 Transport Networks
- Chapter 10 Data Link Layer
- Chapter 11 Network Layer
- Chapter 12 Transport Layer
- Chapter 13 Services and Applications
- Chapter 14 Network Security
- Annex A
- Annex B
- Annex C
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: Multimedia Communications and Networking
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2016
- Publisher(s): CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781466559202
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