Media Networks：Architectures, Applications, and Standards

A rapidly growing number of services and applications along with a dramatic shift in users’ consumption models have made media networks an area of increasing importance. Do you know all that you need to know?

Supplying you with a clear understanding of the technical and deployment challenges, Media Networks: Architectures, Applications, and Standards covers media networks basics, architectures, protocols, standards, specifications, advanced audiovisual and multimedia services, and future directions. Focusing on video and audio-visual services, it provides wide-scale reference on media networks and the audiovisual domain.

The book investigates the different network architectures along with their related protocols and standards. It examines the different digital TV technologies as well as their deployment architectures. Illustrating the role of network operators, service providers, content providers, and manufacturers, this timely reference is divided into three parts:



Presents digital TV technologies, including Open IPTV, Mobile TV, 3D video, and content delivery networks
Covers media content delivery and quality of experience (QoE)
Examines user-centricity and immersive technologies that take into account advanced services personalization, immersive technologies architectures and applications, e-health, and societal challenges


The book considers emerging media content delivery architectures including Future Internet, CDN (Content Delivery Networks) architectures and Content Centric Networks (CCN) approaches, while examining the technical challenges and standardization efforts related to such issues. It presents the Quality of Experience (QoE) in Future Internet/ Next Generation Mobile Networks and also covers the management of media (audio/video) information in Future Internet, including transport protocols and compression technologies. The book concludes by describing pressing societal challenges for networked media.

Hassnaa Moustafa is a senior research engineer at France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), Issy Les Moulineaux (France) since January 2005. She obtained her Tenure in Computer Science (HDR) in June 2010 from the University of Paris XI, her PhD in computer and networks from Telecom ParisTech in December 2004 and her master’s in distributed systems in September 2001 from the University of Paris XI. Her research interests include mobile networks basically ad hoc networks and vehicular networks; mainly routing, security, authentication and access control are part of her research interests in these types of networks. Moreover, she is interested in NGN, IPTV, services’ convergence and personalization. She is a regular member in the IETF and a member of the IEEE and IEEE ComSoc. Hassnaa manages a number of research projects at France Telecom and she has many publications in a number of international conferences including ICC, Globecom, PIMRC, VTC, Mobicom, and many others, and in a wide number of international journals. She edited books and coauthored a wide number of book chapters with the CRC Press.
She also served in chairing and co-chairing activities in several international conferences and workshops and in co-editing several journals special issues. In addition, she served as a TPC member for a wide number of international conferences and workshops including IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, and several ACM conferences, and served as a peer reviewer for several international journals includingIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, Springer Telecommunication Systems Journal, Springer Annals of Telecommunications, Elsevier Computer Networks, and IEEE ComSoc.
Sherali Zeadally received his bachelor’s in computer science from the University of Cambridge, England, and doctorate in computer science from the University of Buckingham, England, in 1996. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at the University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC. He currently serves on the editorial boards of over 18 peer-reviewed international journals. He has been serving as a guest editor for over 20 special issues of various peer-reviewed scholarly journals. He has served as a technical program committee member for over 180 refereed conferences/symposia/workshops. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology, UK.

DIGITAL TVDigital TV; Hassnaa Moustafa, Farhan Siddiqui, and Sherali ZeadallyOpen-IPTV Services and Architectures; Emad Abd-ElrahmanMobile TV; Sherali Zeadally, Hassnaa Moustafa, Nicolas Bihannic, and Farhan SiddiquiConnected TV: The Next Revolution?; Erwan Nedellec3DTV Technology and Standardization; Gilles TeniouDigital TV Architecture Standardization; Olivier Le Grand

MEDIA CONTENT DELIVERY AND QUALITY OF EXPERIENCECollaboration Between Networks and Applications in the Future Internet; S. Ellouze, B. Mathieu, T. Ahmed, and N. SchwanInformation-Centric Networking: Current Research Activities and Challenges; B. Mathieu, P. Truong, J.F. Peltier, W. You, and G. SimonToward Information-Centric Networking: Research, Standardization, Business, and Migration Challenges; Wei Koong Chai, Michael Georgiades, and Spiros SpirouContent Delivery Network for Efficient Delivery of Internet Traffic; Gilles Bertrand and Emile StéphanContent Delivery Networks: Market Overview and Technology Innovations; Bertrand WeberQuality of Experience in Future Media Networks: Consumption Trends, Demand for New Metrics and Evaluation Methods; M. Dabrowski, A. Flizikowski, M. Majewski , and S. KrzysztofQoE-Based Routing for Content Distribution Network Architecture; Hai Anh Tran, Abde lhamid Mellouk, and Said HoceiniQoE of 3D Media Delivery Systems; Varuna De Silva, Gokce Nur, Erhan Ekmekcioglu, and Ahmet M. KondozUSER-CENTRICITY AND IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGIESPerceived QoE for User-Centric Multimedia Services; N. Zotos, J. O. Fajardo, H. Koumaras, L. Boula, F. Liberal, I. Taboada, and M. GorrichoImmersive 3D Media; Erhan Ekmekcioglu, Varuna De Silva, Gokce Nur, and Ahmet M. KondozIPTV Services Personalization; Hassnaa Moustafa, Nicolas Bihannic, and Songbo SongContext-Awareness for IPTV Services Personalization; Radim Zemek, Songbo Song, and Hassnaa MoustafaMetaData Creation and Exploitation for Future Media Networks; Thomas LabbéSemantically Linked Media for Interactive User-Centric Services; Violeta Damjanovic, Thomas Kurz, Georg Güntner, Sebastian Schaffert, and Lyndon NixonTelepresence: Immersive Experience and Interoperability; Bruno ChatrasE-Health: User Interaction with Domestic Rehabilitation Tools; Lynne BaillieSocietal Challenges for Networked Media; Pierre-Yves DanetIndex