Chapter 16

Web Resources

1. ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute):
   2010: New digital video broadcasting standard DVB-T2. The new standard (approved by ETSI) provides high definition television over terrestrial links, by deploying new error protection codes, new modulation schemes and new transmission formats. http://www.etsi.org/
2. IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force):
   http://www.ietf.org/
3. ITU-T Recommendations:
   http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp

For example, Series H recommendations for audiovisual and multimedia systems.
4. MBone (Multicast Backbone):
   http://www-itg.lbl.gov/mbone/
and http://www.mbone.com/
5. Schulzrinne's RTP Page (Columbia University):
   http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/rtp/
6. Schulzrinne's RTSP Page (Columbia University):
   http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/rtsp/
7. Schulzrinne's SIP Page (Columbia University):
   http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/sip/
8. Introductions and White Papers on ATM:
   http://www.atmforum.com/

Follow "Learn about ATM", ...
9. DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting):
   http://www.dvb.org/

Follow "DVB Technology" to find introductions, White Papers, etc.
10. DAVIC (Digital Audio VIsual Council):
    http://www.davic.org/

IETF RFCs (Request for Comments)

1. The IETF RFC Editor Site:
   http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html
2. Criteria for evaluating reliable multicast transport protocols:
   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2357.txt
3. RSVP (Resource ReSerVation Protocol):
   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2205.txt
4. RSVP Update:
   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2750.txt
5. RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol):
   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1889.txt
6. RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol):
   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2326.txt
7. SIP (Session Initiation Protocol):
   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2543.txt
8. SDP (Session Description Protocol):
   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2327.txt
9. SAP (Session Announcement Protocol):
   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2974.txt
10. RTP payload format for MPEG-4 Audio/Visual Streams:
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3016.txt
11. Architecture for differentiated services:
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2475.txt
12. Integrated Services over Diffserv networks:
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2998.txt
13. Traffic engineering over MPLS:
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2702.txt
14. MPLS support of differentiated services:
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3270.txt