Internetworking Multimedia

Increasingly, businesses are turning to Internet-based multimedia communication as a tool to use internally and as the foundation for online services that can be sold to customers. Whether the goal is videoconferencing, distance learning, telemedicine, or real-time entertainment broadcasts, demand for expertise in the underlying technologies is growing rapidly.

Internetworked Multimedia offers students, systems engineers, network administrators, and product developers a complete guide to today's approaches to Internetworked multimedia. Combining coverage of technological principles, middleware, and applications, this book prepares technical readers to contribute in a variety of roles, from strategic decision-making to implementation to ongoing administration.

* Written by a team of highly respected authors serving on committees formed to define standards for Internetworked multimedia; covers all the latest protocols for exchanging sound and moving images across the Internet in real time.
* Addresses topics of special interest to implementers and administrators, such as network service models, security, application support, and problem resolution.
* Examines issues affecting the user's experience, including session creation, announcement, and invitation, collaboration, and media-on-demand.
* Combines low-level technical information, a critical assessment of the state of the art, and a keen vision of the medium's potential-in a single up-to-date resource.

Jon Crowcroft is professor of networked systems in the Department of Computer Science, University College London. His affiliations and duties include member of the IAB, the ACM, and the British Computer Society, fellow of the IEE and senior member of the IEEE, and general chair for the ACM SIGCOMM.

Mark Handley is an Internet researcher based in Berkeley, California. He is the co-chair of Internet standards bodies on multimedia session control and reliable multicast.

Ian Wakeman is a lecturer in software systems at the University of Sussex, where he leads a group working on user-centered networking.