References for Chapter 16

Books

• Nigel Chapman and Jenny Chapman, Web Design: A Complete Introduction (John Wiley & Sons: 2006)

  Our Web design text concentrates on Web standard technologies (HTTP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript) and goes into these in greater detail than Digital Multimedia. It also covers server-side scripting in some depth.

• Andrew S Tanenbaum, Computer Networks (Pearson Education: 4th ed., 2003)

  A comprehensive description of how networks in general, and the Internet in particular, work. Pretty much the standard book on the subject.

• Dave Kosiur, IP Multicasting: The Complete Guide to Interactive Corporate Networks (John Wiley & Sons: 1998)

  Despite the intimidating sub-title, this is actually one of the most readable books on networking that we know. It clearly describes the motivation behind multicasting as well as the technology itself, including the main protocols used for multimedia.

Web Pages

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.1

  The official specification of the current version of the HTTP protocol. It is poorly formatted and hard to read, like many networking standards, but remains the definitive documentation for HTTP.

• RTSP Specification

  A new version of the RTSP specification is being developed and the drafts are made available at Source Forge.

• RTP Specification

  IETF RFC 1889, the formal specification of RTP.