For senior and graduate level courses in Multimedia Systems, Multimedia Networking, and Multimedia Design.

• Written in an easy, conversational style, this is the first book/reference to address concepts, architecture, and design of networked multimedia systems - giving equal treatment to both multimedia and networking. Using an abundance of examples, illustrations, and exercises to explain concepts, it gives balanced treatment to all topics in designing systems. It systematizes the multimedia design process, introduces the various subfields that are essential to understanding the design problems, and gives detailed state-of-the-art treatment to each of these topics.