Description: Packet video over ATM is increasingly the technology of choice for a wide range of "converged" network multimedia applications, including videoconferencing, distance learning, video-on-demand, and Internet-based multiplayer gaming. Packet Video Communication Over ATM Networks brings together the practical and theoretical information professionals need to design ATM-based video networks for maximum performance, reliability, and flexibility. The authors first introduce networked packet video, its advantages, applications, and challenges. They review each aspect of an ATM network relevant to packet video, including ATM layers, packetization techniques, buffering, and video coding. Next, they address each leading approach to increasing the scalability of ATM-based video networks, including data partitioning, SNR scalability, and spatial, temporal and hybrid scalability. Coverage also includes fundamentals of MPEG compression; rate control, multiplexing, video delay, and jitter; asynchronous video across the Internet; controlling quality of service (QoS); and distributed multimedia video systems.

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