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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| New Services and New Technologies | |
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| Network Technologies: Broadband ISDN and ATM | |
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| Digital Video Technologies: ISO/IEC's Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) | |
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| Network Technologies: Access Networks | |
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| Video in Future Information Systems | |
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| Video and Audio Fundamentals | |
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| Video and Audio Fundamentals On A Page | |
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| Video Fundamentals | |
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| Aspects of the Human Sense of Seeing | |
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| Colorspaces | |
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| RGB (Red, Green, Blue) | |
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| YUV and YCrCb | |
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| Sampling of Chrominance and Luminance Values | |
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| Interlacing | |
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| Digital Video Formats | |
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| ITU-R 601 Recommendation | |
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| Source Input Format (SIF) and Common Interchange Format (CIF) | |
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| Audio Fundamentals | |
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| Aspects of the Human Sense of Hearing | |
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| Basic Terms and Concepts | |
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| Digital Representation of Sound | |
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| MPEG-2 | |
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| MPEG-2 On A Page | |
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| The MPEG-2 Standards | |
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| MPEG-2 Video | |
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| Introduction | |
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| MPEG-2 Video the Basics | |
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| Video Sequence | |
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| Frame | |
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| Pictures, Macroblocks and Blocks | |
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| Slices | |
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| Fields | |
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| Data Compression Used in MPEG-2 Video | |
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| MPEG-2 Video The Video Bitstream Syntax | |
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| MPEG-2 Video Scalability | |
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| Spatial Scalability | |
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| Temporal Scalability | |
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| SNR Scalability | |
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| Data Partitioning | |
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| MPEG-2 Video Profiles and Levels | |
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| MPEG Audio | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Layers 1, 2, and 3 | |
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| MPEG Audio Compression and Encoding | |
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| PDU Structure | |
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| Coding Modes | |
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| MPEG-2 Audio Additions | |
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| Compatibility and Matrixing | |
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| Adaptive Multichannel Prediction | |
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| The NBC Work Group | |
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| MPEG-2 Systems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Transport Streams and Program Streams | |
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| MPEG-2 System Syntax Hierarchy | |
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| The Transport Packet | |
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| The Adaptation Field | |
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| Splicing of Transport Streams | |
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| The PES Packet | |
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| Program Specific Information | |
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| PSI Table Sections | |
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| The Program Clock Reference | |
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| Error Detection in MPEG-2 Systems | |
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| MPEG-2 Digital Storage Medium Command and Control (DSM-CC) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| User-to-Network Operations | |
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| User-to-Network Messages | |
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| User-to-User Operations | |
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| Application Download Communication | |
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| Client-Server Communication | |
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| Broadband Network Technologies | |
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| Broadband Network Technologies On A Page | |
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| History and Background of B-ISDN | |
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| Abilities and Benefits of B-ISDN | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Application Independence | |
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| Bandwidth Efficiency | |
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| LAN-MAN-WAN Integration | |
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| Bandwidth Granularity | |
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| Dynamic Bandwidth | |
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| Variable Connection Quality | |
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| Description of Selected Network Elements and Structures | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Network Elements | |
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| Reference Points | |
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| Public Network Elements | |
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| B-ISDN Protocols | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Physical/Convergence Layer | |
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| Transmission Convergence Layer | |
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| Physical Media Dependent Layer | |
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| SONET and SDH | |
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| SONET STS-3c and SDH STM-1 T ransmission Convergence Sublayer | |
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| SDH STM-1 and SONET STS-3c Frame Generation and Extraction | |
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| E3 | |
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| DS-3 | |
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| Header Error Control (HEC) | |
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| Cell Delineation | |
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| ATM Layer | |
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| VPI and VCI | |
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| PTI | |
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| CLP | |
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| HEC | |
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| ATM Layer Quality of Service (QoS) | |
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| ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL) | |
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| AAL-1 | |
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| CS and SAR | |
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| AAL-5 | |
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| CS and SAR | |
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| B-ISDN Services | |
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| Signaling | |
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| UNISignaling | |
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| UNI Signaling Message Flow | |
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| UNI Signaling Messages and IE's | |
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| Access Networks | |
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| Access Networks On A Page | |
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| Access Networks The Basics | |
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| Access Network Types | |
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| Introduction | |
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| FTTC | |
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| ADSL/VDSL | |
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| HFC | |
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| FTTH | |
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| Satellite and Terrestrial Distribution | |
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| MMDS/LMDS | |
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| Video in Broadband Networks | |
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| Video in Broadband Networks On A Page | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The ATM Forum Video On Demand Implementation Agreement | |
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| Introduction | |
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| ATM Forum VoD Protocol Reference Model | |
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| Network Adaptation | |
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| Traffic Parameters and Quality of Service Parameters | |
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| ITU-T Recommendation J.82 | |
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| Mapping of MPEG-2 in AAL-1 | |
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| Mapping of MPEG-2 in AAL-5 | |
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| Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Work Groups: Digital Video in the Internet | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Internet Service Model | |
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| IETF Work Groups and Standards | |
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| The Digital Audio-Visual Council (DAVIC) Association Specification | |
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| Introduction | |
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| DAVIC System Reference Model | |
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| DAVIC Delivery System | |
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| The DAVIC Information Flows | |
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| S1 Flow: Content Flow | |
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| S2 Flow: Control Flow | |
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| S3 Flow: Control Flow | |
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| S4 Flow: Control Flow | |
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| S5 Flow: Management Flow | |
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| Physical Layers in the DAVIC Delivery System | |
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