Digital and IT general topics Books

Book SynopsisProfessionals in the video and multimedia industries need a book that explains industry standards for video coding and how to convert the compressed information between standards. Digital Video Transcoding for Transmission and Storage answers this demand while also supplying the theories and principles of video compression and transcoding technologies. Emphasizing digital video transcoding techniques, this book summarizes its content via examples of practical methods for transcoder implementation. It relates almost all of its featured transcoding technologies to practical applications.This volume takes a structured approach, starting with basic video transcoding concepts and progressing toward the most sophisticated systems. It summarizes material from research papers, lectures, and presentations. Organized into four parts, the text first provides the background of video coding theory, principles of video transmission, and video coding standards. The second part includes thrTable of ContentsFundamentals of digital video compressions. Digital video coding standards. Video transcoding algorithms and systems architecture. Topics on optimization of transcoding performance. Video transport transcoding. System clock recovery and time stamping. Transcoder video buffer and hypothetical reference decoder. Cryptography and conditional access for video transport systems. Application and implementation of video transcoders. Universal multimedia access using MPEG-21 digital item adaption. End-to-end video streaming and transcoding system.

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Book SynopsisThroughout successive generations of information technology, the importance of the performance evaluation of software, computer architectures, and computer networks endures. For example, the performance issues of transaction processing systems and redundant arrays of independent disks replace the virtual memory and input-output problems of the 70s. ATM performance issues supercede those associated with electronic telephony of the 70s.As performance issues evolve with the technologies, so must our approach to evaluation. In System Performance Evaluation: Methodologies and Applications, top academic and industrial experts review the major issues now faced in this arena. In a series of structured, focused chapters, they present the state-of-the-art in performance methodologies and applications. They address developments in analytical modeling and its interaction with detailed analysis of measurement data. They also discuss performance evaluation methodologies for large-scale software systems - in general and in the context of critical applications, such as nuclear reactor control and air transportation systems.With its particular emphasis on network performance for wireless networks, the Internet, and ATM networking, System Performance Evaluation becomes the ideal vehicle for professionals in computer architecture, networking, and software engineering to stay up-to-date and proficient in this essential aspect of information technology.Table of ContentsIntroduction, I. Advances in Internet Network Performance, 1. Rate Adapters with Bursty Arrivals and Rational Rate Reduction: Queuing Analysis, 2. Internet Traffic: Periodicity, Tail Behavior, and Performance Implications, 3. A Generalization of a TCP Model: Multiple Source-Destination Case with Arbitrary LAN as the Access Network, II. Advances in ATM Networks, 4. A Virtual Path Routing Algorithm for ATM Networks Based on the Equivalent Bandwidth Concept, 5. Link Capacity Sharing Between Guaranteed and Best Effort Services, 6. QoS Management with Delays and Cell Drops, 7. Fluid Analysis of TCP Connections Over ABR VCs, 8. On the Exact Performance Analysis of Multicast Switches with Input Buffering, 9. Performance Evaluation of a Scene-Based Model for VBR MPEG Traffic, III. Traffic-Based System and Network Design, 10. Buffering vs. Smoothing for End-to-End QoS: Fundamental Issues and Comparison, 11. Analysis of a Time Division Multiplexing Method with Priorities, 12. Web Traffic Modeling and Performance Comparison Between HTTP1.0 and HTTP1.1, 13. Average Bandwidth and Delay for Reliable Multicast, 14. Time-Slot Allocation in Wireless TDMA, 15. Maintaining Connectivity for Mobile Computing Applications in Cellular Systems with Multiple Traffic Classes and Mixed Platform Types, 16. A Parallel Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for Capacitated Network Design Problems, 17. A Unified Approach to the Analysis of Large-Scale Teletraffic Models, 18. MRE: A Robust Method of Inference for Finite Capacity Queues, IV. Advances in System Performance Methodologies, 19. PNiQ — A Concept for Performability Evaluation, 20. Performance Analysis of Multiclass Data Transfer Elements in Soft Real-Time Systems Using Semaphore Queues, 21. Hybrid Analysis of Non-Markovian Stochastic Petri Nets, 22. A Performance Model for SPADES Specifications, 23. Analysis of Commercial Workload on SMP Multiprocessors, V. System Performance and Reliability 347, 24. Bayesian Belief Networks for Safety Assessment of Computer-Based Systems, 25. Software Performance Validation Strategies, 26. Performance Validation at Early Stages of Software Development, 27. Impact of Workload Models in Evaluating the Performance of Distributed Web-Server Systems, 28. Validation in the European Air Traffic Management Program (EATMP), Index

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