Apostolis Salkintzis, Nikos Passas, "Emerging Wireless Multimedia: Services and Technologies"
John Wiley & Sons | ISBN 0470021497 | 2005 Year | PDF | 4,76 Mb | 454 Pages
John Wiley & Sons | ISBN 0470021497 | 2005 Year | PDF | 4,76 Mb | 454 Pages
| “ | The provision of IP-based multimedia services is one of the most exiting and challenging aspects of next generation wireless networks. A significant evolution has been underway for enabling such multimedia services and for ultimately migrating the Internet to the wireless world. This book examines this evolution, looking at an array of the most up-to-date wireless multimedia technologies and services. The first part focuses on enabling technologies for wireless multimedia, while the second is dedicated to the new wireless multimedia services that are expected to play a key role in the future wireless environment. In addition, the related recent standardization, research and industry activities are addressed. Covers a complete range of multimedia hot topics, ranging from audio/video coding techniques to multimedia protocols and applications Discusses QoS issues in WLANs, 3G and hybrid 3G/WLAN networks Provides in-depth discussion of the most modern multimedia services, such as Push-to-Talk, Instant Messaging, Presence, mobile payments, MMS, WAP, and location-based multimedia services Addresses the emerging Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) and the key aspects of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) in 3G networks | ” |