Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Multimedia Communications: Source Representations, Networks, and Applications / Jerry D. Gibson -- Ch. 2. Future Telecommunication Networks: Traffic and Technologies / Leonid G. Kazovsky, Giok-Djan Khoe and M. Oskar van Deventer -- Ch. 3. Speech Coding Standards / Andreas S. Spanias -- Ch. 4. Audio Coding Standards / Chi-Min Liu and Wen-Whei Chang -- Ch. 5. Still Image Compression Standards / Michael W. Hoffman and Khalid Sayood -- Ch. 6. Multimedia Conferencing Standards / David Lindbergh -- Ch. 7. MPEG-1 and -2 Compression / Tom Lookabaugh -- Ch. 8. MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 / Jerry D. Gibson -- Ch. 9. ATM Network Technology / Yoichi Maeda and Koichi Asatani -- Ch. 10. ISDN / Koichi Asatani and Toshinori Tsuboi -- Ch. 11. Video-on-Demand Broadcasting Protocols / Steven W. Carter, Darrell D. E. Long and Jehan-Francois Paris -- Ch. 12. Internet Telephony Technology and Standards Overview / Bernard S. Ku --

Ch. 13. Wideband Wireless Packet Data Access / Justin Chuang, Leonard J. Cimini, Jr. and Nelson Sollenberger -- Ch. 14. Internet Protocols Over Wireless Networks / George C. Polyzos and George Xylomenos -- Ch. 15. Transcoding of the Internet's Multimedia Content for Universal Access / Richard Han and John R. Smith -- Ch. 16. Multicasting: Issues and Networking Support / Upkar Varshney.

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