Media Networks: Architectures, Applications, and Standards

A rapidly growing number of services and applications along with a dramatic shift in users’ consumption models have made media networks an area of increasing importance. Do you know all that you need to know?

Supplying you with a clear understanding of the technical and deployment challenges, Media Networks: Architectures, Applications, and Standards covers media networks basics, architectures, protocols, standards, specifications, advanced audiovisual and multimedia services, and future directions. Focusing on video and audio-visual services, it provides wide-scale reference on media networks and the audiovisual domain.

The book investigates the different network architectures along with their related protocols and standards. It examines the different digital TV technologies as well as their deployment architectures. Illustrating the role of network operators, service providers, content providers, and manufacturers, this timely reference is divided into three parts:

1. Presents digital TV technologies, including Open IPTV, Mobile TV, 3D video, and content delivery networks



2. Covers media content delivery and quality of experience (QoE)



3. Examines user-centricity and immersive technologies that take into account advanced services personalization, immersive technologies architectures and applications, e-health, and societal challenges

The book considers emerging media content delivery architectures including Future Internet, CDN (Content Delivery Networks) architectures and Content Centric Networks (CCN) approaches, while examining the technical challenges and standardization efforts related to such issues. It presents the Quality of Experience (QoE) in Future Internet/ Next Generation Mobile Networks and also covers the management of media (audio/video) information in Future Internet, including transport protocols and compression technologies. The book concludes by describing pressing s

Hassnaa Moustafa is a senior research engineer at France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), Issy Les Moulineaux (France) since January 2005. She obtained her Tenure in Computer Science (HDR) in June 2010 from the University of Paris XI, her PhD in computer and networks from Telecom ParisTech in December 2004 and her master’s in distributed systems in September 2001 from the University of Paris XI. Her research interests include mobile networks basically ad hoc networks and vehicular networks; mainly routing, security, authentication and access control are part of her research interests in these types of networks. Moreover, she is interested in NGN, IPTV, services’ convergence and personalization. She is a regular member in the IETF and a member of the IEEE and IEEE ComSoc. Hassnaa manages a number of research projects at France Telecom and she has many publications in a number of international conferences including ICC, Globecom, PIMRC, VTC, Mobicom, and many others, and in a wide number of international journals. She edited books and coauthored a wide number of book chapters with the CRC Press.

She also served in chairing and co-chairing activities in several international conferences and workshops and in co-editing several journals special issues. In addition, she served as a TPC member for a wide number of international conferences and workshops including IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, and several ACM conferences, and served as a peer reviewer for several international journals including IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, Springer Telecommunication Systems Journal, Springer Annals of Telecommunications, Elsevier Computer Networks, and IEEE ComSoc.

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