| Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques - Ecmast'99: 4th European Conference, Madrid, Spain, May 26-28, 1999, Proceedings 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Leopold, Helmut (Editor), Garcia, Narciso (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540660828 ISBN-13: 9783540660828 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1999 Annotation: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques, ECMAST'99, held in Madrid, Spain in May 1999. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 71 submissions. The book is divided in sections on services and applications, multimedia terminals, content creation, physical broadcast infrastructure, multimedia over the Internet, metadata, 3D imaging, multicast protocols, security and protection, and mobility. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Information Technology - Computers | Interactive & Multimedia - Computers | Databases - General |
| Dewey: 006.7 |
| LCCN: 99-34565 |
| Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.81 lbs) 580 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The liberalisation in the telecommunication market and thus the advent of competition has had a tremendous impact on business in this area. New operators have started to offer telecommunication services in competition with the classical national network operators. This in turn will have an impact on the market share, the tariff structure, the Quality of Service (QoS) and the services offered to the end customers. A way to maintain or increase revenue for network operators is to additionally offer new services to the customers. The final target is a so-called "Full Service Network (FSN)", which is capable of offering all types of bi-directional multimedia services. The provisioning of new telecommunication services in general and new multimedia services in particular is made possible by the availability of several new technologies as well as through advances in standardisation. R&D policies world-wide but especially in Europe have forced the development of new networking technologies such as ATM, xDSL and HFC as well as new video technologies as defined by DVB and DAVIC. |