Multimedia Internet Broadcasting: Quality, Technology and Interface

✍ Scribed by Robert L. West, Ronald L. Boring, Richard F. Dillon (auth.), Andy Sloane BSc, PhD, CertED, MIEEE, Dave Lawrence BSc, PhD (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 242
Series: Computer Communications and Networks
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Multimedia Internet Broadcasting: Quality, Technology and Interface studies one of the most exciting aspects of contemporary Internet use and research: the broadcasting of multimedia content. It draws together key research findings and directions from around the world, and explores issues such as:
User experience and behaviour
Modelling and providing an infrastructure for broadcast events
Technical developments of underlying protocols, algorithms and systems
Trends associated with the use and regulation of the Internet around the world
Designed to enable optimal Internet broadcast design and trigger new and developmental research, this book is particularly suited to research groups, students, practitioners and developers.
This text is supported by a dedicated web resource and discussion list available at: http://mib.mdx.ac.uk

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Human-Computer Interaction, Quality of Service, and Multimedia Internet Broadcasting....Pages 1-15
Advanced Digital User Behaviour Analysis (ADUBA)....Pages 17-33
The Influence of Network Quality of Service Factors on the Usability and Effectiveness of Multimedia Internet Broadcasting....Pages 35-51
Distributed Global Conferences over Heterogeneous Networks....Pages 53-72
Global360/NICE Video Conference Model....Pages 73-92
Towards an Advanced Quality of Service Architecture....Pages 93-119
Changes and Challenges: Mass Customised Media and the Internet....Pages 121-136
Regulatory Trends in Webcasting in the United States, the European Union, and Japan: Focusing on Universal Service....Pages 137-159
A Source-adaptive Multi-layered Multicast Algorithm for Internet Video Distribution....Pages 161-184
An Adaptive Resource Broker for Multimedia Teleservices....Pages 185-199
The Token Repository Service: A Universal and Scalable Mechanism for Constructing Multicast Acknowledgment Trees....Pages 201-227
Back Matter....Pages 229-233

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Multimedia Information Systems

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