Chapter 14 is the last chapter with prognoses, trends and visions for multimedia in the net.
Signaling Protocols for Multimedia Communication
Chapter 13 gives an overview of signaling protocols for multimedia communication. The chapter provides a brief introduction in signaling and sessions,...
Conversational Multimedia Services
This chapter introduces multimedia conferencing and gives examples for applications. It also describes the typology of multi-point conferences and bri...
Multimedia Content Production and Management
This chapter gives an overview of the production and management of multimedia content. This includes topics about encoding and transcoding of multimed...
Electronic Books and Magazines
This chapter introduces electronic books and magazines. It gives a brief overview of history and terminology of electronic books and introduces differ...
Web Radio, Web TV and IPTV
Chapter 9 covers the topics Web Radio, Web TV and IPTV. It gives several examples for each topic and points out some trends regarding these services.
Streaming Architectures
This chapter gives an overview of streaming architectures (high-level streaming architecture, real-time data transport, scalabitily and multicast). Th...
Multimedia Content Description
This chapter gives an overview over metadata and its concepts in general. The generic metadata standard MPEG-7 and selected metadata-relevant standard...
Introduction to Cryptography
This chapter introduces cryptographic techniques (symmetric and assymetric). It also includes digital signatures and describes public key infrastructu...
Content-Oriented Base Technologied for Networked Multimedia - Part b: Watermarking, DRM Standards
This part finishes Chapter 5. In this second part watermarking is explained in more detail and DRM standards as well as commercial solutions are prese...