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Multimedia Internet Broadcasting

Quality, Technology and Interface

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Andy Sloane

    1. CoNTACT Research Group, School of Computing and IT, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

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  2. Dave Lawrence

    1. MinT Research Group, School of Computing Science, Middlesex University, Trent Park, UK

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  • This is the only research-based book to cover the rapidly emerging topic of Multimedia Internet Broadcasting - most other books tend to be practically-based
  • It offers a broader range of coverage than other books, which tend to focus on particular aspects of the technology
  • Accompanied by a dedicated website

Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Human-Computer Interaction, Quality of Service, and Multimedia Internet Broadcasting

    • Robert L. West, Ronald L. Boring, Richard F. Dillon, Jeff Bos
    Pages 1-15

  3. Advanced Digital User Behaviour Analysis (ADUBA)

    • Balz Wyss, Christian Scheier, Steffen Egner
    Pages 17-33

  4. The Influence of Network Quality of Service Factors on the Usability and Effectiveness of Multimedia Internet Broadcasting

    • Andy McKinlay, Rob Procter, Scott Gallacher
    Pages 35-51

  5. Distributed Global Conferences over Heterogeneous Networks

    • Tomás Robles, Juan Quemada, Tomás de Miguel, Santiago Pavón, Joaquín Salvachúa, Manuel Petit et al.
    Pages 53-72

  6. Global360/NICE Video Conference Model

    • Andrei S. Mendkovich, Alexei P. Galitsky, Evgeny V. Mironov, Dmitri I. Sidelnikov
    Pages 73-92

  7. Towards an Advanced Quality of Service Architecture

    • Jan deMeer, Armin Eberlein
    Pages 93-119

  8. Changes and Challenges: Mass Customised Media and the Internet

    • Klaus Goldhammer
    Pages 121-136

  9. Regulatory Trends in Webcasting in the United States, the European Union, and Japan: Focusing on Universal Service

    • Jae-Young Kim
    Pages 137-159

  10. A Source-adaptive Multi-layered Multicast Algorithm for Internet Video Distribution

    • Célio Albuquerque, Brett J. Vickers, Tatsuya Suda
    Pages 161-184

  11. An Adaptive Resource Broker for Multimedia Teleservices

    • Gábor Fehér, István Cselényi
    Pages 185-199

  12. The Token Repository Service: A Universal and Scalable Mechanism for Constructing Multicast Acknowledgment Trees

    • Christian Maihöfer
    Pages 201-227

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 229-233
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About this book

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

Editors and Affiliations

  • CoNTACT Research Group, School of Computing and IT, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

    Andy Sloane

  • MinT Research Group, School of Computing Science, Middlesex University, Trent Park, UK

    Dave Lawrence

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multimedia Internet Broadcasting

  • Book Subtitle: Quality, Technology and Interface

  • Editors: Andy Sloane, Dave Lawrence

  • Series Title: Computer Communications and Networks

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0327-1

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-283-9Published: 16 March 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-0327-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1617-7975

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-8433

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 234

  • Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Multimedia Information Systems

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