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This practical resource provides a survey on the technologies, protocols, and architectures that are widely used in practice to implement networked multimedia services. The book presents the background and basic concepts behind multimedia networking, and provides a detailed analysis of how multimedia services work, reviewing the diverse network protocols that are of common use to implement them. To guide the explanation of concepts, the book focuses on a representative set of networked multimedia services with proven success and high penetration in the telecommunication market, namely Internet telephony, Video-on-Demand (VoD), and live IP television (IPTV). Contents are presented following a stepwise approach, describing each network protocol in the context of a networked multimedia service and making appropriate references to the protocol as needed in the description of other multimedia services.



This book also contains questions and exercises to provide the reader with insight on the practical application of the explained concepts. Additionally, a laboratory practice is included, based on open-source tools and software, to analyze the operation of an Internet telephony service from a practical perspective, as well as to deploy some of its fundamental components.



Part I. Introduction to multimedia networking: Motivation and objectives, An overview of multimedia networking; Part II. Internet telephony: Fundamentals of Internet telephony, Playout mechanisms, Loss recovery techniques, Multimedia Transport Protocols: RTP, SCTP, QUIC; Signaling protocols: from SS7 to H.323/SIP, Control Architectures: IMS; Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA): Radius, Diameter; Policy and Charging Control, Web real-time communications: WebRTC; Part III. Video-on-demand: Chapter 10: Fundamentals of Video-on-Demand (VoD), Chapter 11: Controlling the delivery of multimedia content: RTSP, Transport of information and control using HTTP: the basics of HTTP, HTTP 2.0, EPG, HTTP streaming, adaptive streaming, N-PVR, etc., Scalable content dissemination: Peer-to-Peer (P2P), Content Delivery Networks (CDN); Part IV. Live IPTV: Fundamentals of live IPTV, Multipoint delivery services: IP multicast; User Generated Content (UGC).