Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications

This useful guide presents introductory concepts, fundamental techniques, the latest advances, and open issues in broadband wireless multimedia. Divided into four sections, it first introduces various broadband wireless multimedia systems. Using video as an application example, the book then focuses on the routing and cross-layer design issue of multimedia communication over multihop wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. The next section discusses issues related to multimedia communications over WLANs. The book concludes with recent developments in QoS provisioning mechanisms and other enabling technologies, including middleware, mobility management, scheduling, and power control.