Digital Communication: Communication, Multimedia, Security

✍ Scribed by Christoph Meinel, Harald Sack (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 406
• Series: X.media.publishing
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The authors give a detailed summary about the fundamentals and the historical background of digital communication. This includes an overview of the encoding principles and algorithms of textual information, audio information, as well as images, graphics, and video in the Internet. Furthermore the fundamentals of computer networking, digital security and cryptography are covered. Thus, the book provides a well-founded access to communication technology of computer networks, the internet and the WWW. Numerous pictures and images, a subject-index and a detailed list of historical personalities including a glossary for each chapter increase the practical benefit of this book that is well suited as well as for undergraduate students as for working practitioners.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Prologue....Pages 1-16
Historical Overview....Pages 17-88
Communication Fundamentals in Computer Networks....Pages 89-152
Multimedia Data and Its Encoding....Pages 153-289
Digital Security....Pages 291-336
Epilogue....Pages 337-346
Back Matter....Pages 347-400

✦ Subjects

Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Multimedia Information Systems; History of Computing; Coding and Information