Ralf Steinmetz

Multimedia Applications discusses the basic characteristics of multimedia document handling, programming, security, human computer interfaces, and multimedia application services. The overall goal of the book is to provide a broad understanding of multimedia systems and applications in an integrated manner: a multimedia application and its user interface must be developed in an integrated fashion with underlying multimedia middleware, operating systems, networks, security, and multimedia devices. Fundamental information and properties of hypermedia document handling, multimedia security and various aspects of multimedia applications are presented, especially about document handling and their standards, programming of multimedia applications, design of multimedia information at human computer interfaces, multimedia security challenges such as encryption and watermarking, multimedia in education, as well as multimedia applications to assist preparation, processing and application of multimedia content.

Multimedia Systems discusses the basic characteristics of multimedia operating systems, networking and communication, and multimedia middleware systems. The overall goal of the book is to provide a broad understanding of multimedia systems and applications in an integrated manner: a multimedia application and its user interface must be developed in an integrated fashion with underlying multimedia middleware, operating systems, networks, security, and multimedia devices. Fundamental characteristics of multimedia operating and distributed communication systems are presented, especially scheduling algorithms and other OS supporting approaches for multimedia applications with soft-real-time deadlines, multimedia file systems and servers with their decision algorithms for data placement, scheduling and buffer management, multimedia communication, transport, and streaming protocols, services with their error control, congestion control and other Quality ofService aware and adaptive algorithms, synchronization services with their skew control methods, and group communication with their group coordinating algorithms and other distributed services.

Multimedia Applications discusses the basic characteristics of multimedia document handling, programming, security, human computer interfaces, and multimedia application services. The overall goal of the book is to provide a broad understanding of multimedia systems and applications in an integrated manner: a multimedia application and its user interface must be developed in an integrated fashion with underlying multimedia middleware, operating systems, networks, security, and multimedia devices. Fundamental information and properties of hypermedia document handling, multimedia security and various aspects of multimedia applications are presented, especially about document handling and their standards, programming of multimedia applications, design of multimedia information at human computer interfaces, multimedia security challenges such as encryption and watermarking, multimedia in education, as well as multimedia applications to assist preparation, processing and application of multimedia content.

Multimedia Systems discusses the basic characteristics of multimedia operating systems, networking and communication, and multimedia middleware systems. The overall goal of the book is to provide a broad understanding of multimedia systems and applications in an integrated manner: a multimedia application and its user interface must be developed in an integrated fashion with underlying multimedia middleware, operating systems, networks, security, and multimedia devices. Fundamental characteristics of multimedia operating and distributed communication systems are presented, especially scheduling algorithms and other OS supporting approaches for multimedia applications with soft-real-time deadlines, multimedia file systems and servers with their decision algorithms for data placement, scheduling and buffer management, multimedia communication, transport, and streaming protocols, services with their error control, congestion control and other Quality ofService aware and adaptive algorithms, synchronization services with their skew control methods, and group communication with their group coordinating algorithms and other distributed services.

In dem Buch Multimedia-Technologie werden Grundlagen, Komponenten und Systeme multimedialer Datenverarbeitung beschrieben. In diesem Werk werden die integrierte digitale Speicherung, Kommunikation, Verarbeitung und Darstellung kontinuierlicher (z.B. Audio, Video) und diskreter Mediendaten (z.B. Grafik, Text) umfassend erlautert. Schwerpunkte bilden Kompressionsverfahren, optische Speicher, Medienserver, Dienstgute, Kommunikation, Dokumente, Design und Sicherheitsaspekte bei multimedialen Systemen.Die dritte Auflage ist uberarbeitet und aktualisiert.

Ausgehend von den Grundlagen der Netzwerksicherheit stellen die Autoren die unterschiedlichen Sicherheitsaspekte bei der Übertragung von Daten und die einschlägigen Software- und Hardwarelösungen dar. In diesem Kontext werden auch Firewall-Konzepte behandelt. Heute gebräuchliche Verschlüsselungsverfahren wie etwa PGP und PEM werden auf ihre Eignung bei Anwendungen untersucht. Der Leser lernt außerdem, wie er mit Watermarking und Signaturen Copyrights auf Bilder, Video und Audio erzeugen und auswerten kann. Zudem diskutieren die Autoren ausführlich die Sicherheitsprobleme elektronischer Zahlungssysteme und vergleichen dabei mehrere im Test befindliche Systeme.