Ideal for those with little background in the subject, this book provides a cohesive and seamless presentation of both the fundamental and advanced concepts related to Multimedia Information Networking -- from basic technologies and communication systems, protocols, and networks, to a variety of multimedia applications. If offers balanced coverage of communication and multimedia issues -- focusing on multimedia information, as well as on techniques and technologies used in making this information available on computer networks. Covers multimedia information representation, data communications principles, data communications protocols, networking fundamentals, multimedia applications, temporal relationships, networking devices, wide area networks, local area networks, internetworking and asynchronous transfer mode, multimedia information networks, information network design and simulation, and multimedia data compression. For anyone interested in learning about multimedia information networking.