TY - BOOK AU - Halsall, Fred ; TI - Multimedia communications : applications, networks, protocols and standards SN - 0201398184 U1 - 004.69 PY - 2001/// CY - Delhi : PB - Pearson Education. KW - Multimedia systems. KW - Multimedia. KW - Communicate. KW - Computerization. KW - Computer architecture. KW - Operating systems N1 - Included Index; 1. Multimedia Communications.-- 2. Multimedia Information Representation.-- 3. Text and Image Compression -- 4. Audio and Video Compression -- 5. Standards for Multimedia Communications -- 6. Digital Communication Basics -- 7. Circuit-switched networks -- 8. Enterprise Networks -- 9. The Internet -- 10. Broadband ATM Networks -- 11. Entertainment Networks and High-Speed Modems -- 12. Transport Protocols -- 13. Application Support Functions -- 14. Internet Applications -- 15. The World Wide Web N2 - Addressing the main areas associated with multimedia communications, this text identifies the different types of multimedia applications, quantifies their communication requirements and describes the operation and protocols of the different kinds of networks that are used to support them ER -