Multimedia Communications Application Networks Protocols And Standards

The fast-growing field of multimedia communications involves the use of varied media types (text, images, speech, audio and video) in a wide range of subject areas. These include; how to represent the different media types in a digital form; the range of compression algorithms that are used with each of these media types; the communication requirements associated with the different types of multimedia applications (video telephony/conferencing, electronic mail, interactive TV, electronic commerce, Web TV etc) the operation of the different types of communication networks that are used (campus networks and LANs, the Internet and the World Wide Web, switched telephone networks such as cable and satellite); The new communication protocols and standards that have been developed for use with each of these networks to meet the more demanding requirements of multimedia application.