1st Edition

Handbook of Emerging Communications Technologies The Next Decade

Edited By Rafael Osso Copyright 2000
416 Pages
by CRC Press

416 Pages
by CRC Press

Communication technologies change the way we live our lives-the ways we communicate and share information, the news, and our entertainment. The new millennium promises to bring some of the most volatile activity in the history of communications, as we continue to be bombarded by new standards and technologies. The near frenzy of corporate mergers and acquisitions accelerates technological... Read more
Preface
Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP), Sonia Fahmy and Raj Jain
Multimedia Over IP: RSVP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP, Chunlei Liu
Video Transmission Over Wireless Links: State of the Art and Future Challenges, Antonio Ortega and Masoud Khansari
JMAPI - Java Management Application Programming Interface, Mario Francois Jauvin
Cable Modems and HFC, Albert Azzam
DVD Technology, Bruce Klopfenstein
Switched Network Carrying Capacities, George Scheets and Mark Allen
The Development of Multiprotocol Label Switching to Integrate IP with ATM for the Internet Backbone, Andrew Malis
Designing Multipoint Logically Switched Optical Networks, Eric Bouillet
Multi-wavelength Optical Networks, Krishna Bala
IP and Integrated Services, Saleem N. Bhatti
Satellite Communications, Ahmad Khanifar
Internet/MBONE Audio, V. Hardman and O. Hodson
Broadcasting in the Internet Age: Emerging Business Models for Broadcasting, Richard Ducey
High Definition Television, Douglas A. Ferguson
The New Technologies of Radio: Terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) and Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service (DARS), Ted Carlin
Key Concepts in Electronic Commerce, Bruce Klopfenstein
Emerging Security Testing, Evaluation, and Validation: The Key to Enhancing Consumer Trust in Security-Enhanced Products, Paul Brusil, Arnold Johnson, and Edwin Steeble

Biography

Rafael Osso

"…quite diverse…technical, yet even non-specialists will likely find the material covered understandable and helpful…consistent style…"
-Choice, March 2000