Multimedia system

Author: Ralf Steinmetz
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book provides a detailed and in-depth overview of multimedia systems and their applications. Only when all components in an end-to-end solution are well-coordinated can users fully experience the joy brought by multimedia. This means that the development of multimedia applications should adopt a comprehensive approach, with a focus on the important technologies described in this book. The book primarily introduces the fundamental characteristics and properties of multimedia operating systems and communication systems, including: scheduling algorithms for multimedia applications and other operating system support methods; soft real-time deadlines; the internal structure of multimedia file systems and file servers; data placement and scheduling decision algorithms; multimedia communication, transmission, streaming protocols, and services; error control, congestion control, QoS awareness, and adaptive algorithms in multimedia communication; synchronization services and their latency control methods; group communication and related packet coordination algorithms and other distributed services.