Multimedia Streaming and Applications

The book introduces the reader to multimedia streaming and details the QoS and QoE parameters that should be taken into account in multimedia streaming. After reviewing the main multimedia streaming players several chapters, it details all the issues related to IPTV and VoIP. It explains several technologies related with multimedia streaming, such as content delivery networks, mobile multimedia streaming, peer to peer multimedia streaming and multimedia streaming in Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks. The book shows the latest challenges in stereoscopic and 3D video streaming and in virtual and augmented reality streaming.