Treffer: Digital Communication: Communication, Multimedia, Security

Title:
Digital Communication: Communication, Multimedia, Security
Authors:
Meinel, Christoph, author.
Contributors:
Sack, Harald, author.
Publication Year:
2014
Physical Description:
X, 400 p. 146 illus. online resource.
Series:
X.media.publishing
X.media.publishing.
Subject Terms:
Multimedia systems., Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computer science., Data structures (Computer science), Computer network architectures., Coding theory., Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks., Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory., History of Computing., Coding and Information Theory.
Contents Note:
Prologue -- Historical Overview -- Communication Fundamentals in Computer Networks -- Multimedia Data and Its Encoding -- Digital Security -- Epilogue -- List of Persons -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Image References -- Bibliography -- Index.
Original Identifier:
(Springer)9783642543319
Document Type:
Buch Book
Language:
English
ISBN:
978-3-642-54331-9
978-3-642-54330-2
3-642-54331-6
3-642-54330-8
Rights:
This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress.
Accession Number:
edshlc.013950567.9
Database:
Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset

Weitere Informationen

The authors give a detailed summary about the fundamentals and the historical background of digital communication. This includes an overview of the encoding principles and algorithms of textual information, audio information, as well as images, graphics, and video in the Internet. Furthermore the fundamentals of computer networking, digital security, and cryptography are covered. Thus, the book provides a well-founded access to communication technology of computer networks, the internet, and the WWW. Numerous pictures and images, a subject-index and a detailed list of historical personalities including a glossary for each chapter increase the practical benefit of this book that is well suited as well as for undergraduate students as for working practitioners.