Overview
Main description
This is a system level design book aimed at the engineers deploying mobile video services around the globe. Pulling the relevant pieces from the many confusing standards and protocols surrounding video telephony, the book serves as a roadmap through the regulatory maze, as well as a detailed tutorial on each phase of deployment, from video compression through multiplexing and call control.
Table of contents
FOREWORDACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONChapter 1: Migrating to Third-Generation Mobile NetworksChapter 2: Basics of Multimedia CommunicationChapter 3: Media CodingChapter 4: Video Telephony over Mobile Switched NetworksChapter 5: The H-223 Multiplexer in DetailChapter 6: H.245 Command and Control in DetailChapter 7: Session WalkthroughChapter 8: Implementation IssuesChapter 9: Video Telephony over Mobile Packet NetworksChapter 10: Supplementary Services and InterworkingAPPENDIX A: SYNTAX OF H.245 MESSAGES USED IN 3G-324MAPPENDIX B: H.245 SIGNALING ENTITIESACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONSBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
Author comments
David J. Myers (Sidney, Australia) is a co-founder of Dilithium Networks and was its first Vice President of Engineering. A multiyear veteran of British Telecom's R&D division, he served as Broadband Delivery Manager for BTopenworld, the largest broadband provider in the United Kingdom. He has also lectured on telecommunications engineering at Sydney University, and acted as a technical consultant to the European Commission.
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Make video mobile
Mobile video will be a $5 billion global business by 2008, predicts Strategy Analytics. This truly international, system-level tutorial provides the technical expertise you need to make it all possible. Mobile Video Telephony shows you how to:
- Design and deploy high-performance video telephony services
- Work within ITU, IETF, and ISO standards
- Apply information on coding and compression, including MPEG4
- Enable interworked voice and video connections to Internet-based clients such as SIP
- Solve essential issues in call forwarding, multipoint operation, and mailbox services
- And much more!
Migrating to Third-Generation Mobile Networks * Basics of Multimedia Communication * Video Telephony over Switched Mobile Networks * Multiplexing Video, Audio, Data, and Control * Call Control * Implementation Issues * Video Telephony over Mobile Packet Networks * Interworking and Supplementary Services
FROM THE FRONT COVER
The 3G-324M recommendation of 3GPP
ITU, IETF, and ISO standards
Video and audio coding and compression
H.223 multiplexing and H.245 call control
System implementation, diagnosis and testing
SIP-based mobile video telephony
Video mail and conferencing
