Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Types of Networks -- 1.1.1 Internet -- 1.1.2 Telecommunication Provider Networks -- 1.1.3 Company Networks -- 1.1.4 University Networks -- 1.1.5 Home Networks -- 1.1.6 Overview -- 1.2 Standard Organizations -- 1.3 Market -- Chapter 2 Requirements -- 2.1 Telephony -- 2.2 Streaming -- 2.3 IPTV -- 2.4 High-End Videoconferences -- 2.5 Webcast -- 2.6 Requirement Summary -- Chapter 3 Audio, Image, Video Coding, and Transmission -- 3.1 Audio -- 3.1.1 Companding -- 3.1.2 Differential Quantization -- 3.1.3 Vocoders -- 3.2 Basics of Video Coding -- 3.2.1 Simple Compression -- 3.2.2 Motion Estimation -- 3.2.3 Statistical Compression -- 3.2.4 Transform Functions -- 3.3 JPEG -- 3.4 MPEG/H.26x Video Compression -- 3.4.1 MPEG Data Streams -- 3.4.2 H.261 -- 3.4.3 MPEG-4 -- 3.4.4 H.264 -- 3.4.5 Scalable Video Codec -- 3.4.6 H.265 -- 3.5 Other Video Compression Standards -- 3.6 Three-Dimensional Video -- 3.7 Error Resilience -- 3.8 Transcoder -- Chapter 4 Underlying Network Functions -- 4.1 Real-Time Protocol (RTP) -- 4.1.1 Elements of RTP -- 4.1.2 Details of RTP -- 4.1.3 RTP Payload -- 4.1.4 Details of RTCP -- 4.2 Session Description Protocol (SDP) -- 4.2.1 SDP Overview -- 4.2.2 Extending SDP -- 4.2.3 Javascript Session Establishment Protocol (JSEP) -- 4.3 Streaming -- 4.3.1 Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) -- 4.4 Multicast -- 4.4.1 Multicast Overview -- 4.4.2 Multicast Addressing -- 4.4.3 Types of Multicast -- 4.4.4 Multicast End Delivery -- 4.4.5 Multicast Routing Protocols -- 4.4.6 Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode -- 4.4.7 Application Layer Multicast -- 4.5 Quality of Service -- 4.5.1 Integrated Services (Intserv) -- 4.5.2 Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) -- 4.5.3 Differentiated Services (DiffServ).

4.5.4 QoS on the LAN -- 4.5.5 QoS in the Real World -- 4.6 NTP -- 4.7 Caching -- 4.7.1 Caching Elements -- 4.7.2 Web Cache Communications Protocol (WCCP) -- 4.7.3 Content Delivery Networks -- 4.7.4 Use of Cache Servers in Private Networks -- Chapter 5 Synchronization and Adaptation -- 5.1 End-to-End Model -- 5.2 Jitter -- 5.3 Packet Loss -- 5.4 Play-Out Time -- 5.4.1 Hypothetical Decoder -- 5.4.2 Multiple Streams -- 5.4.3 Adaptive Play-Out -- 5.5 Congestion Control -- 5.6 Delay -- 5.7 Queuing -- 5.8 Media Player -- 5.9 Storage and Retrieval -- 5.10 Integration Scripting Languages -- 5.11 Optimization -- Chapter 6 Session Initiation Protocol -- 6.1 SIP Basics -- 6.1.1 First Steps with SIP -- 6.1.2 SIP Servers -- 6.1.3 More SIP Methods -- 6.2 PSTN Interconnection -- 6.3 Conferencing -- 6.4 Presence -- 6.5 Network Address Translation -- 6.6 APIs and Scripting -- 6.7 Security and Safety -- 6.8 Planning a VoIP Company Telephony System -- 6.8.1 Dial Plan -- 6.8.2 Emergency -- 6.8.3 VoIP Network Planning -- Chapter 7 Other Standard VoIP Protocols -- 7.1 H.323 VoIP Family -- 7.1.1 H.225 -- 7.1.2 H.245 -- 7.1.3 Comparing SIP and H.323 -- 7.2 T.120 Data Applications -- 7.3 Gateway Control -- 7.3.1 H.248 -- 7.3.2 Signal Control -- 7.4 Mobile VoIP -- 7.4.1 IP Multimedia Subsystem -- 7.4.2 VoLTE -- 7.5 Skype -- Chapter 8 WebRTC -- 8.1 WebRTC Transport -- 8.1.1 ICE Revisited -- 8.2 RTP/SDP Adaptations -- 8.3 Interworking -- Chapter 9 Streaming and Over-the-Top TV -- 9.1 HTTP Live Streaming-Apple -- 9.2 Smooth Streaming-Microsoft -- 9.3 HTTP Dynamic Streaming-Adobe -- 9.4 Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP-DASH -- 9.4.1 History of MPEG-DASH -- 9.4.2 Description of MPEG-DASH -- 9.5 DASH and Network Interaction -- 9.5.1 Player Reaction to Network Conditions -- 9.5.2 Fairness, Efficiency, and Stability -- 9.5.3 Bufferbloat -- 9.6 Content Delivery Networks.

9.6.1 CDN Technology -- 9.6.2 Akamai -- 9.6.3 The Future of CDNs -- 9.7 Providers -- 9.7.1 Amazon Instant Video -- 9.7.2 YouTube -- 9.7.3 Netflix -- 9.7.4 Hulu -- 9.7.5 Common Issues for all Providers -- Chapter 10 Home Networks -- 10.1 IETF Home Standards -- 10.1.1 IP Address Assignment -- 10.1.2 Name Resolution -- 10.1.3 Service Discovery-Zeroconf and Others -- 10.1.4 Zeroconf Implementations -- 10.2 UPnP -- 10.2.1 Service Discovery-UPnP -- 10.2.2 AV Architecture and its Elements -- 10.3 DLNA -- 10.4 Residential Gateway -- 10.4.1 IMS Integration -- 10.4.2 Network Separation -- Chapter 11 High-End IPTV -- 11.1 Overview of DVB IPTV -- 11.2 Live Media Broadcast -- 11.2.1 Retransmission -- 11.2.2 Channel Switch -- 11.3 Datacast Protocols -- 11.3.1 Flute -- 11.3.2 DVB SD&S Transport Protocol -- 11.3.3 Digital Storage Media-Command and Control -- 11.4 Management Functions -- 11.4.1 Service Discovery and Selection -- 11.4.2 Broadband Content Guide -- 11.4.3 Remote and Firmware Management -- 11.5 Content Download Service -- 11.6 Deployments -- 11.7 Companion Screen Application -- 11.8 Set-Top-Box Functions -- 11.9 Integration into Other Systems -- 11.9.1 IPTV and IMS -- 11.9.2 IPTV and IMS and WebRTC -- 11.9.3 IPTV and Home Network -- Chapter 12 Solutions and Summary -- 12.1 Global Webcast -- 12.2 Digital Signage Broadcasting -- 12.3 Call Center -- 12.3.1 Functional Components -- 12.3.2 Technical Components -- 12.4 Videoconference and TelePresence -- 12.4.1 Cisco's Telepresence -- 12.4.2 Cisco's Telepresence Transport Specifics -- 12.4.3 Cisco's Telepresence Network Setup -- 12.5 Summary of Requirements versus Solutions -- References -- Index -- EULA.