• Multimedia Networking: Books
• Multimedia General: Books
• Multimedia Compression: Books

One to five asterisks in front of the some of the books represent our subjective view of their goodness. The titles without asterisks have not been rated. The books are arranged in the reverse order of year of publication.

Multimedia Networking: Books

• [****] Regis J. Bates, Donald Gregory, Bud Bates, " Voice and Data Communications Handbook," McGraw-Hill, February 1996.
• Jerry D. Gibson, " Multimedia Communications: Directions and Innovations," Academic Press, January 2001, 310 pages.
• Kenneth Abernethy, J. Thomas Allen, " Exploring the Digital Domain: An Introduction to Computing with Multimedia and Networking," Brooks/Cole Pub Co, January 1999, 512 pages.
• Nalin K. Sharda, " Multimedia Information Networking," Prentice Hall, July 1998, 480 pages.
• Mallikarjun Tatipamula, Bhumip Khasnabish, " Multimedia Communications Networks: Technologies and Services," Artech House, July 1998, 564 pages.
• Ellen Kayata Wesel, Ellen Khayata, " Wireless Multimedia Communications," Prentice Hall, December 1997, 298 pages.
• J. David Irwin, Chwan-Hwa 'John' Wu, " Emerging Multimedia Computer Communication Technologies," Prentice Hall, December 1997, 464 pages.
• Franklin F. Kuo, et al, " Multimedia Communications : Protocols and Applications," Prentice Hall, October 1997, 475 pages.
• Ralf Steinmetz, Klara Nahrstedt, " Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications," Prentice Hall, July 1995, 880 pages.
• Daniel Minoli, " Video Dialtone Technology : Digital Video over Adsl, Hfc, Fttc, and ATM," McGraw-Hill, May 1995.
• Francois Fluckiger, " Understanding Networked Multimedia," Prentice Hall, January 1995, 620 pages.
• Bohdan O. Szuprowicz, " Multimedia Networking," Unknown, November 1994, 261 pages.
• Naohisa Ohta, " Packet Video : Modeling and Signal Processing," Artech House, February 1994, 207 pages.
• Daniel Minoli, Robert Keinath, " Distributed Multimedia Through Broadband Communications Services," Artech House, November 1993, 311 pages.

Multimedia General: Books

• [*****] Randall Packer, Ken Jordan, William Gibson, " Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality," W.W. Norton & Company, January 2001, 394 pages.
• [****] Martin Doucette, " Digital Video for Dummies," Hungry Minds, Inc, February 2001, 384 pages.
• James E. Shuman, " Multimedia Concepts : Illustrated Introductory," Course Technology, March 2001, 248 pages.
• Jorg Wilberg, " Codesign for Real-Time Video Applications," Kluwer, November 1997, 191 pages.
• Jessica Keyes, " The Ultimate Multimedia Handbook," Unknown, September 1996.
• Borko Furht, " Multimedia Systems and Techniques," Kluwer, May 1996, 325 pages.
• Hseuh-Ming Hang, John W. Woods, " Handbook of Visual Communications," Academic Press, October 1995, 518 pages.
• Borivoje Furht, et al, " Video and Image Processing in Multimedia Systems," Kluwer, July 1995.
• Borko Furht, Milan Milenkovic, " A Guided Tour of Multimedia Systems and Applications," IEEE Computer Society, May 1995, 496 pages.
• John F. Koegel Buford, John F. Koegel Buford, John F. Koegel, " Multimedia Systems," Addison-Wesley, May 1994, 451 pages.
• Jeff Burger, " The Desktop Multimedia Bible," Addison-Wesley, January 1993, 635 pages.

Multimedia Compression: Books

• [*****] Stephen J. Solari, " Digital Video and Audio Compression," McGraw-Hill, March 1997, 281 pages.
• [*****] Andy Rathbone, " Mp3 for Dummies," Hungry Minds, Inc, May 2001, 337 pages.
• Aaron E. Walsh, Mikael Bourges-Sevenier, " MPEG-4 Jump-Start," Prentice Hall, December 2001, 488 pages.
• Peter D. Symes, " Video Compression," McGraw-Hill, March 1998, 320 pages.
• Jerry D. Gibson, et al, " Digital Compression for Multimedia : Principles and Standards," Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, January 1998, 496 pages.
• Wu-Chi Feng, " Buffering Techniques for Delivery of Compressed Video in Video-On-Demand Systems (Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 417," Kluwer, September 1997, 152 pages.
• Borko Furht, et al, " Motion Estimation Algorithms for Video Compression," Kluwer, June 1997, 176 pages.
• Hua Harry Li, Shan Sun, Haluk Derin, " Video Data Compression for Multimedia Computing : Statistically Based and Biologically Inspired Techniques (Kluwer International Series in engineering," Kluwer, June 1997, 421 pages.
• Vasudev Bhaskaran, Konstantinos Konstantinides, " Image and Video Compression Standards : Algorithms and Architectures," Kluwer, June 1997, 454 pages.
• Guido M. Schuster, Aggelos Konstantinos Katsaggelos, " Rate-Distortion Based Video Compression : Optimal Video Frame Compression and Object Boundary Encoding," Kluwer, March 1997.
• Barry G. Haskell, Atul Puri, Arun N. Netravali, " Digital Video : An Introduction to Mpeg-2," Kluwer, December 1996.
• Joan L. Mitchell, William B. Pennebaker, Chad E. Fogg, " Mpeg Video : Compression Standard," Kluwer, October 1996.
• J. J. Hwang, Kamisetty Ramamohan Rao, " Techniques and Standards for Image, Video, and Audio Coding," Prentice Hall, July 1996, 600 pages.
• Weidong Kou, " Digital Image Compression : Algorithms and Standards," Kluwer, August 1995.
• John Watkinson, " Compression in Video and Audio," Focal Press, May 1995, 256 pages.
• R. J. Clarke, " Digital Compression of Still Images and Video," Academic Press, May 1995, 453 pages.
• Jan Ozer, " Video Compression for Multimedia," Unknown, November 1994, 387 pages.