TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meinel,Christoph
AU  - Sack,Harald
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Digital Communication: Communication, Multimedia, Security 
T2  - X.media.publishing,
SN  - 9783642543319
AV  - QA76.9.C643 
U1  - 004.6 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Computer organization
KW  - Data structures (Computer science)
KW  - Coding theory
KW  - Multimedia information systems
KW  - Computers
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks
KW  - Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
KW  - Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory
KW  - Multimedia Information Systems
KW  - History of Computing
KW  - Coding and Information Theory
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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