Media Networks: Architectures, Applications, and Standards by Hassnaa Moustafa, Sherali Zeadally

By Hassnaa Moustafa, Sherali Zeadally

A quickly growing to be variety of providers and purposes in addition to a dramatic shift in clients’ intake versions have made media networks a space of accelerating significance. are you aware all it's essential to know?

Supplying you with a transparent figuring out of the technical and deployment demanding situations, Media Networks: Architectures, functions, and Standards covers media networks fundamentals, architectures, protocols, criteria, standards, complicated audiovisual and multimedia providers, and destiny instructions. concentrating on video and audio-visual prone, it presents wide-scale reference on media networks and the audiovisual domain.

The booklet investigates the several community architectures in addition to their similar protocols and criteria. It examines the several electronic television applied sciences in addition to their deployment architectures. Illustrating the function of community operators, carrier services, content material companies, and brands, this well timed reference is split into 3 parts:

  1. Presents electronic television applied sciences, together with Open IPTV, cellular television, 3D video, and content material supply networks
  2. Covers media content material supply and caliber of expertise (QoE)
  3. Examines user-centricity and immersive applied sciences that take into consideration complicated companies personalization, immersive applied sciences architectures and purposes, e-health, and societal challenges

The e-book considers rising media content material supply architectures together with destiny net, CDN (Content supply Networks) architectures and content material Centric Networks (CCN) methods, whereas analyzing the technical demanding situations and standardization efforts on the topic of such concerns. It provides the standard of expertise (QoE) in destiny web/ subsequent iteration cellular Networks and in addition covers the administration of media (audio/video) info in destiny net, together with delivery protocols and compression applied sciences. The booklet concludes via describing urgent societal demanding situations for networked media.

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To efficiently provide clients with a satisfying IPTV service and to maintain a high QoE level, user data should be prioritized depending on their service category. However, it is hard to determine how much bandwidth should be Digital TV ◾ 23 reserved for a QoS-guaranteed flow especially when the video ­quality that the user perceives is actually dependent on individual human perception [24]. ◾◾ User interface and multichannels view: With the growing IPTV industry and the availability of hundreds of TV channels, users want to watch more than one channel at the same time.

Real VoD: Real VoD services allow users to select and watch video content over a network as part of an interactive and enhanced selective service. 2 IPTV Service Classifications Classifications Basic Channel Service Services Audio and video Audio only Audio, video, and data Enhanced Selective Service Near VoD (Video on Demand) broadcasting Real VoD MoD (Music on Demand) including Audio book. ) T-commerce (security, banking, shopping, auction, and ordered delivery) T-communication (mail, messaging, SMS, channel chatting, VoIP, Web, video conference, and video phone) T-entertainment (photo album, game, karaoke, and blog) T-learning (education for children, elementary, middle and high school student, languages, and estate) VoD services are either “stream” content, allowing viewing while the video is being downloaded, or “download” it in which the program is brought in its entirety to a set-top box or similar device before viewing starts.

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