"Digital Video" ed. by Floriano De Rango

This book tries to address different aspects and issues related to video and multimedia distribution over the heterogeneous environment considering broadband satellite networks and general wireless systems where wireless communications and conditions can pose serious problems to the efficient and reliable delivery of content.

Specific chapters of the book relate to different research topics covering the architectural aspects of the most famous DVB standard (DVB-T, DVB-S/S2, DVB-H etc.), the protocol aspects and the transmission techniques making use of MIMO, hierarchical modulation and lossy compression. In addition, research issues related to the application layer and to the content semantic, organization and research on the web have also been addressed in order to give a complete view of the problems. The network technologies used in the book are mainly broadband wireless and satellite networks.
The book can be read by intermediate students, researchers, engineers or people with some knowledge or specialization in network topics.

Contents
Preface
1 Multimedia Traffic over Wireless and Satellite Networks
2 Adaptive Video Transmission over Wireless MIMO System
3 Transmission Optimization of Digital Compressed Video in Wireless Systems
4 Resilient Digital Video Transmission over Wireless Channels using Pixel-Level Artefact Detection Mechanisms
5 Digital Videos Broadcasting via Satellite – Challenge on IPTV Distribution
6 The Deployment of Intelligent Transport Services by using DVB-Based Mobile Video Technologies
7 A New Waveform based on Linear Precoded Multicarrier Modulation for Future Digital Video Broadcasting Systems
8 Performance Analysis of DVB-T/H OFDM Hierarchical Modulation in Impulse Noise Environment
9 IP Datacast and the Cost Effectiveness of its File Repair Mechanism
10 DVB-T2: New Signal Processing Algorithms for a Challenging Digital Video Broadcasting Standard
11 Passive Radar using COFDM (DAB or DVB-T) Broadcasters as Opportunistic Illuminators
12 Reliable and Repeatable Power Measurements in DVB-T Systems
13 MidField: An Adaptive Middleware System for Multipoint Digital Video Communication
14 Video Content Description Using Fuzzy Spatio-Temporal Relations
15 Trick play on Audiovisual Information for Tape, Disk and Solid-State based Digital Recording Systems
16 Video Quality Metrics
17 Video Analysis and Indexing
18 Video Editing Based on Situation Awareness from Voice Information and Face Emotion
19 Combined Source and Channel Strategies for Optimized Video Communications
20 Amplitude Phase Shift Keying Constellation Design and its Applications to Satellite Digital Video Broadcasting
21 Non-Photo Realistic Rendering for Digital Video Intaglio
22 Building Principles and Application of Multifunctional Video Information System
23 Digital Video Image Quality