New Books

Wavelets and Filter Banks,

by Gilbert Strang and Truong Nguyen. Wellesley-Cambridge Press, 1996, 490 pp., $62.50, ISBN 0-9614088-7-1 (orders can be made by sending email to gs@math.mit.edu).
Contents: Introduction; Filters; Downsampling and Upsampling; Filter Banks; Orthogonal Filter Banks; Multiresolution; Wavelet Theory; Finite Length Signals; M-Channel Filter Banks; Design Methods; Applications.

Commercial ATM Switches,

by Edwin R. Coover. Artech House, Available March 1997, 325 pp., $90, ISBN 0-89006-783-X.
Contents: Requirements for Gigabit Switches; Technical Challenges of High-Speed Swtiches; Today's Megabit Switching; High-Speed Switching Components; Competing Emphasis -- LAN, MAN, and WAN; Competing Standards -- ANSI/FDDI II & Fiber Channel; CCITT/ATM, and IEEE DQDB; Competing Switching Elements/Fabrics -- Knockout, Roxanne, Coprin, Athena, Batcher, Banyan, and St. Louis; Product Overviews; Future Requirements.

Communication and Computing for Distributed Multimedia Systems,

by Guojun Lu. Artech House, 1996, 328 pp., $83, ISBN 0-89006-888-4.
Contents:
What are Multimedia Computing and Communications? Characteristics and Requirements of Multimedia Data; Digital Audio, Image, and Video Compression Principles, Techniques, and Standards; End-to-End Quality-of-Service Guarantee for Digital Audio and Video Communications; Network Support for Multimedia Communications; Multimedia Transport Protocols; End-System Architecture; Multimedia Servers; Networked Multimedia Synchronization; Multimedia Information Indexing and Retrieval; Towards Information Superhighways.

Digital Video Communications,

by Martyn J. Riley and Iain E. G. Richardson. Artech House, Available February 1997, 242 pp., $83, ISBN 0-89006-890-9.
Contents: Applications for Digital Video Communications; Video Compression Techniques; Internet; Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Networks; Quality of Service for Video Communications; The Effect of Bit Errors and Packet Loss on Compressed Video; Forward Error Correction Techniques; Multi-Layer Video Coding; Video Rate Control.

Hilbert Transforms in Signal Processing,

by Stefan L. Hahn. Artech House, Available January 1997, 325 pp., $114, ISBN 0-89006-886-0.
Contents: Theory of the One-Dimensional Hilbert Transformation; Properties of the Hilbert Transformation; Derivations and Applications; Distributions in the Theory of the Hilbert Transformation and Complex Signals; The Discrete Hilbert Transformation; Hilbert Transformers; The Hilbert Transform in Modulation, Signal and System Theory; Multidimensional Complex Signals and Applications; Multidimensional Hilbert and Fourier Transformations; Tables.

Competitive Markov Decision Processes,

by J. A. Filar and K. Vrieze. Springer-Verlag, 1996, 395 pp., DM 98, ISBN 0-387-94805-8.

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