Multimedia Networking References

• Multimedia: Standards
• Multimedia, Multimedia Networking, and Compression: Books
• Multimedia: Papers
• Multimedia: On-line
• MPEG-2 over ATM: References
• Multimedia Networking: On-line
• IP Multimedia: Working Groups
• IP Multimedia: RFCs
• Internet Drafts
• For related topics see also:
• IP Multicasting References, http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/refs/ipm_refs.htm
• Quality of Service over IP References, http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/refs/ipqs_ref.htm
• Voice over IP References, http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/refs/ref_voip.htm

Multimedia: Standards

• JTC1/SC2/WG10, "Digital Compression and Coding of Continuous-Tone Still Images (JPEG)"
• JTC1/SC2/WG11, "Coding of Moving Pictures and Associated Audio for Digital Storage Media up to about 1.5 Mbit/s," [MPEG-1] ISO/IEC DIS 11172, 1992.
•  "Information Technology- Generic Coding of Moving Pictures and Associated Audio Recommendations H.262," [MPEG-2] ISO/IEC 13818-2 CD, Nov 1993, Seoul.
• H.221, Frame structure for a 64 to 1920 kbit/s channel in audiovisual teleservices, 07/1995, 40pp.
• H.221, Frame structure for a 64 to 1920 kbit/s channel in audiovisual teleservices, 07/1997, 44pp.
• H.222.0, Information technology - Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information: Systems, 11/1996.
• H.222.1, Multimedia multiplex and synchronization for audiovisual communication in ATM environments, 03/1996, 24pp.
• H.223, Multiplexing protocol for low bit rate multimedia communication, 03/1996, 24pp.
• H.224, A real time control protocol for simplex applications using the H.221, LSD/HSD/MLP channels, 11/1994, 12pp.
• H.225.0, Media stream packetization and synchronization on non-guaranteed quality of service LANs, 11/1996, 108pp.
• H.261, Video codec for audiovisual services at pX64 kbits/s, 03/1993, 25 pp.
• H.263, Video coding for low bit rate communication, 03/1997, 4 pp.
• H.310, Broadband audiovisual communication systems and terminals, 11/1996, 48 pp.
• H.320, Narrow-band visual telephone systems and terminal equipment, 07/97, 28 pp.
• H.321, Adaptation of H.320 visual telephone terminals to B-ISDN environments, 03/1996, 20 pp.
• H.322, Visual telephone systems and terminal equipment for local area networks which provide a guaranteed quality of service, 03/1996, 8 pp.
• H.323, Visual telephone systems and equipment for local area networks which provide a non guaranteed quality of service, 11/1996, 80 pp.
• H.324, Terminal for low bit rate Multimedia Communication,03/1996, 36 pp.
• H.331, Broadcasting type audiovisual multipoint systems and terminal equipment, 03/1993, 5 pp.
• J.80, "Transmission of Component-Coded Digital Television Signals for COntribution-Quality Applications at Bit Rates Near 140 Mbits/s", Rev. 1, 1993
• J.81, "Transmission of Component-Coded Television Signals for Contribution-Quality Applications at the Third HIgherical Level of ITU-T Recommendation G.702," Rev 1, 1993.

Multimedia, Multimedia Networking, and Compression: Books

• See http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/refs/mul_book.htm

  Multimedia: Papers

• Communications of ACM, Vol. 34, No. 4, Apr 1991.
• IEEE Spectrum, Special issue on Digital Television, April 1995. [History and explanation of HDTV]
• T. Chiang and D. Anastassiou, "Hierarchical Coding of Digital Television," IEEE Communications Magazine, May 1994, pp. 38-45. [MPEG-2]
• E. Fox, "Advances in Interactive Digital Multimedia Systems," IEEE Computer, October 1991, pp. 9-21.

Multimedia: On-line

• Multimedia Networking Products, http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cis788-95/index.html
• JPEG image compression: Frequently asked questions, http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/
• Audio Formats: Frequently asked questions, http://www.faqs.org/faqs/AudioFAQ/
• RTSP Resource Center, http://www.real.com/realone/?src=realaudio
• Henning Schulzrinne's RTSP page, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/rtsp/
• Compression FAQs
• ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/compression-faq/part1
• ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/compression-faq/part2
• ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/compression-faq/part3

MPEG-2 over ATM: References

• AMS VOD Spec V1.0
• H.222.0, Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information
• H.222.1, Multimedia multiplex and synchronization for audiovisual communication in ATM environments, November 1995.
• ANSI/TIA xxxx, Multimedia premises reference architecture, draft 1.0, September 1995.
• H.221, Frame structure for a 64 to 1920 kbps channel in audiovisual teleservices, 1995.
• Hewlett Packard, "MPEG-2 Digital Video Technology & Testing," BSTS Solution Note 5963-7511E, 1995. Call 800-452-4844.
• S. Dixit and Paul Skelly, "MPEG-2 over ATM," IEEE Network, September/October 1995, pp. 30-40.
• F. Fluckinger, "Back to Basics: Networking Requirements of audio and motion video," ConneXtions, January 1996, pp. 15-23.
• D. M. Alley, I. Y. Kim, and A. Atkinson, "Audio services for an asynchronous transfer mode network," BT Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3, July 1995.

Multimedia Networking: On-line

• Multimedia Networking Products, http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cis788-95/multimedia_prod/index.html
• MICE, http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/projects/mice/mice_home.html
• UCSD Multimedia Research Group, http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/misc/ucsd-mm.html
• OS and Network support for video services, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lam/NRL/video_services.html
• OS and Network support for video services, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lam/NRL/video_services.html
• The Voice on Net Home Page, http://www.von.com/
• Desktop Videoconferencing, http://www.lbl.gov/
• Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication

IP Multimedia: Working Groups

IP Multimedia: RFCs

• RFC 3119, A More Loss-Tolerant RTP Payload Format for MP3 Audio. R. Finlayson. June 2001. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3119.txt
• RFC 3096, Requirements for robust IP/UDP/RTP header compression. M. Degermark. July 2001. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3096.txt
• RFC 3095, RObust Header Compression (ROHC): Framework and four profiles: RTP, UDP, ESP, and uncompressed. C. Bormann, C. Burmeister, M. Degermark, H. Fukushima, H. Hannu, L-E. Jonsson, R. Hakenberg, T. Koren, K. Le, Z. Liu, A. Martensson, A. Miyazaki, K. Svanbro, T. Wiebke, T. Yoshimura, H. Zheng. July 2001. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3095.txt
• RFC 3073, Portable Font Resource (PFR) - application/font-tdpfr MIME Sub-type Registration. J. Collins. March 2001. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3073.txt
• RFC 3051, IP Payload Compression Using ITU-T V.44 Packet Method. J. Heath, J. Border. January 2001. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3051.txt
• RFC 3047, RTP Payload Format for ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1. P. Luthi. January 2001. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3047.txt
• RFC 3016, RTP Payload Format for MPEG-4 Audio/Visual Streams. Y. Kikuchi, T. Nomura, S. Fukunaga, Y. Matsui, H. Kimata. November 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3016.txt
• RFC 2862, RTP Payload Format for Real-Time Pointers. M. Civanlar, G. Cash. June 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2862.txt
• RFC 2833, RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones and Telephony Signals. H. Schulzrinne, S. Petrack. May 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2833.txt
• RFC 2793, RTP Payload for Text Conversation. G. Hellstrom. May 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2793.txt
• RFC 2762, Sampling of the Group Membership in RTP. J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne. February 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2762.txt
• RFC 2736, Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format Specifications. M. Handley, C. Perkins. December 1999. (Also BCP0036) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2736.txt
• RFC 2733, An RTP Payload Format for Generic Forward Error Correction. J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne. December 1999. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2733.txt
• RFC 3048, Reliable Multicast Transport Building Blocks for One-to-Many Bulk-Data Transfer. B. Whetten, L. Vicisano, R. Kermode, M. Handley, S. Floyd, M. Luby. January 2001. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3048.txt
• RFC 3019, IP Version 6 Management Information Base for The Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol. B. Haberman, R. Worzella. January 2001. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3019.txt
• RFC 2991, Multipath Issues in Unicast and Multicast Next-Hop Selection. D. Thaler, C. Hopps. November 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2991.txt
• RFC 2934, Protocol Independent Multicast MIB for IPv4. K. McCloghrie, D. Farinacci, D. Thaler, B. Fenner. October 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2934.txt
• RFC 2932, IPv4 Multicast Routing MIB. K. McCloghrie, D. Farinacci, D. Thaler. October 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2932.txt
• RFC 2909, The Multicast Address-Set Claim (MASC) Protocol. P. Radoslavov, D. Estrin, R. Govindan, M. Handley, S. Kumar, D. Thaler. September 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2909.txt
• RFC 2908, The Internet Multicast Address Allocation Architecture. D. Thaler, M. Handley, D. Estrin. September 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2908.txt
• RFC 2907, MADCAP Multicast Scope Nesting State Option. R. Kermode. September 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2907.txt
• RFC 2887, The Reliable Multicast Design Space for Bulk Data Transfer. M. Handley, S. Floyd, B. Whetten, R. Kermode, L. Vicisano, M. Luby. August 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2887.txt
• RFC 2776, Multicast-Scope Zone Announcement Protocol (MZAP). M. Handley, D. Thaler, R. Kermode. February 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2776.txt
• RFC 2771, An Abstract API for Multicast Address Allocation. R. Finlayson. February 2000. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2771.txt
• RFC 2730, Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP). S. Hanna, B. Patel, M. Shah. December 1999. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2730.txt
• RFC 2729, Taxonomy of Communication Requirements for Large-scale Multicast Applications. P. Bagnall, R. Briscoe, A. Poppitt. December 1999. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2729.txt
• RFC 2658, RTP Payload Format for PureVoice(tm) Audio. K. McKay. August 1999. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2658.txt
• RFC 2586, The Audio/L16 MIME content type. J. Salsman, H. Alvestrand. May 1999. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2586.txt
• RFC 2435, RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video. L. Berc, W. Fenner, R. Frederick, S. McCanne, P. Stewart. October 1998. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2435.txt
• RFC 2431, RTP Payload Format for BT.656 Video Encoding. D. Tynan. October 1998. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2431.txt
• RFC 2429, RTP Payload Format for the 1998 Version of ITU-T Rec. H.263 Video (H.263+). C. Bormann, L. Cline, G. Deisher, T. Gardos, C. Maciocco, D. Newell, J. Ott, G. Sullivan, S. Wenger, C. Zhu. October 1998. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2429.txt
• RFC 2376, XML Media Types. E. Whitehead, M. Murata. July 1998. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2376.txt
• RFC 2361, WAVE and AVI Codec Registries. E. Fleischman. June 1998. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2361.txt
• RFC 2354, Options for Repair of Streaming Media. C. Perkins, O. Hodson. June 1998. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2354.txt
• RFC 2343, RTP Payload Format for Bundled MPEG, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2343.txt
• RFC 2327, SDP: Session Description Protocol. M. Handley, V. Jacobson. April 1998. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2327.txt
• RFC 2326, Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2326.txt
• RFC 2250, RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2250.txt
• RFC 2198, RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data. C. Perkins, I. Kouvelas, O. Hodson, V. Hardman, M. Handley, J.C. Bolot, A. Vega-Garcia, S. Fosse-Parisis. September 1997. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2198.txt
• RFC 2190, RTP Payload Format for H.263 Video Streams, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2190.txt
• RFC 2038, RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video. D. Hoffman, G. Fernando, V. Goyal. October 1996, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2038.txt
• RFC 2035, RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video. L. Berc, W. Fenner, R. Frederick, S. McCanne. October 1996, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2035.txt
• RFC 2032, RTP Payload Format for H.261 Video Streams. T. Turletti, C. Huitema. October 1996, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2032.txt
• RFC 2029, RTP Payload Format of Sun's CellB Video Encoding. M. Speer, D. Hoffman. October 1996, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2029.txt
• RFC 1890, RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control. Audio-Video Transport Working Group, H. Schulzrinne. January 1996, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1890.txt
• RFC 1889, RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications. Audio-Video Transport Working Group, H. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick & V. Jacobson. January 1996, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1889.txt
• RFC 0807, "Multimedia mail meeting notes", 02/09/1982, 6 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc807.txt
• RFC 0910, "Multimedia mail meeting notes", 08/01/1984, 11 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc910.txt
• RFC 1193, "Client Requirements for Real-Time Communication Services", 11/15/1990, 24 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1193.txt
• RFC 1197, "Using ODA for Translating Multimedia Information", 12/31/1990, 2 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1197.txt
• RFC 1343, "A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information", 06/11/1992, 10 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1343.txt
• RFC 1453, "A Comment on Packet Video Remote Conferencing and the Transport/Network Layers", 04/15/1993, 10 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1453.txt
• RFC 1524, "A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information", 09/23/1993, 12 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1524.txt
• RFC 1614, "Network Access to Multimedia Information", 05/20/1994, 79 pp. (RTR 8) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1614.txt
• RFC 1821, "Integration of Real-time Services in an IP-ATM Network Architecture", 08/11/1995, 24 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1821.txt
• RFC 1844, "Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent checklist", 08/24/1995, 8 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1844.txt
• RFC 1889, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications", 01/25/1996, 75 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1889.txt
• RFC 1890, "RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control", 01/25/1996, 18 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1890.txt
• RFC 1890, "RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control", 01/25/1996, 18 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1890.txt
• RFC 2029, "RTP Payload Format of Sun's CellB Video Encoding", 10/30/1996, 6 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2029.txt
• RFC 2032, "RTP payload format for H.261 video streams", 10/30/1996, 11 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2032.txt
• RFC 2035, "RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video", 10/30/1996, 16 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2035.txt
• RFC 2038, "RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video", 10/30/1996, 11 pp. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2038.txt
• RFC 2327, SDP: Session Description Protocol, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2327.txt

Internet Drafts

• Search for "audio", "video", "multimedia", or "voice" at http://search.ietf.org/or click on the following queries:
• http://search.ietf.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?restrict=http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/&words=audio
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• http://search.ietf.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?restrict=http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/&words=multimedia
• http://search.ietf.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?restrict=http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/&words=voice