Digital Communication Communication, Multimedia, Security /

• Main Authors: Meinel, Christoph (Author), Sack, Harald (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: X.media.publishing,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer organization.; Data structures (Computer science).; Coding theory.; Multimedia information systems.; Computers.; Computer Science.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Multimedia Information Systems.; History of Computing.; Coding and Information Theory.

The authors give a detailed summary about the fundamentals and the historical background of digital communication. This includes an overview of the encoding principles and algorithms of textual information, audio information, as well as images, graphics, and video in the Internet. Furthermore the fu...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• Historical Overview
• Communication Fundamentals in Computer Networks
• Multimedia Data and Its Encoding
• Digital Security
• Epilogue
• List of Persons
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Image References
• Bibliography
• Index.