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16.1 Quality of Multimedia Data Transmission
16.2 Multimedia over IP
16.3 Multimedia over ATM Networks
16.4 Transport of MPEG-4
16.5 Media-on-Demand (MOD)
16.6 Further Exploration
Characteristics of Multimedia Data
Voluminous — they demand very high data rates, possibly dozens or hundreds of Mbps.
• Real-time and interactive — they demand low delay and synchronization between audio and video for “lip sync”. In addition, applications such as video conferencing and interactive multimedia also require two-way traffic.
• Sometimes bursty — data rates fluctuate drastically, e.g., no traffic most of the time but burst to high volume in video-on-demand.