Mobile Multimedia Communications

✍ Scribed by Ender Ayanoglu, Kai Y. Eng, Mark J. Karol (auth.), David J. Goodman, Dipankar Raychaudhuri (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In 1997, the two hottest topics in information technology are the Internet and mobile communications. Each one has the enthusiastic attention of the consuming public, investors. and the technical community. In a time of rapid expansion, they both face technical obstacles to meeting the public's high expectations. This situation stimulates a high volume of research in both areas. To bring the Internet into the twenty-first century. the research community focuses on multimedia communications in which integrated systems store, transport. and process many types of information simultaneously. A major challenge is to meet the of each information service. This problem is separate performance requirements especially challenging when a system has to deliver broadband, real-time services such as full-motion video. Meanwhile. the mobile communications research community continues its long­ term struggle against the triple challenge of mobility. ether. and energy. "Mobility" refers to the changing locations of terminals. When terminals are mobile. networks have to determine their locations and dynamically establish routes for information. The networks also have to rearrange themselves in order to maintain links to terminals with active communications sessions. "Ether" refers to the problems of wireless communications including limited bandwidth. rapidly changing radio propagation conditions. mutual interference of radio signals. and vulnerability of systems to eavesdropping and unauthorized access. "Energy" refers to the fact that portable information devices carry their own power sources. The rate at which the batteries of cellular telephones and portable computers drain their energy has a strong effect on their utility.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Limits and Challenges for Wireless ATM....Pages 1-8
Wireless Intelligent ATM Network....Pages 9-19
An Active Network Architecture for ATM WANS....Pages 21-28
Forest Fire Monitoring Using a GSM Based System....Pages 29-32
Cellular Communication Systems with Voice and Background Data....Pages 33-42
System Capacity Design Based on Communication Quality for Cellular CDMA Systems....Pages 43-50
Integrated Voice and Video Services in Microcellular CDMA Systems — Downlink Power-Based Call Admission....Pages 51-57
Scheduling to Meet Mixed Quality of Service Requirements in Wireless Networks....Pages 59-66
Fast Handoffs Using Virtual Paths in Mobile ATM Networks....Pages 67-74
Handoff and Location Management in Mobile ATM Networks....Pages 75-82
Handoff Protocols and Analysis for TDMA PCS with an ATM Backbone....Pages 83-90
Comparison of Multicast Flow Control Algorithms over Combined Wireless/Wired Networks....Pages 91-100
End-To-End Programmability for QOS Controlled Mobility in ATM Networks and their Wireless Extension....Pages 101-109
Loss Profiles at the Link Layer....Pages 111-115
Mobile-TCP: An Asymmetric Transport Protocol Design for Mobile Systems....Pages 117-128
Mobility and Quality of Service (QoS) in the Internet....Pages 129-135
M-RTP : RTP Extensions to Support Mobile Networking....Pages 137-144
Security for a Connectionless Peer-to-Peer Link....Pages 145-149
Mobile Middleware: Additional Functionalities to Cover Wireless Terminals....Pages 151-157
Experiences with the Development of Mobile Multimedia Applications....Pages 159-166
Adaptive Packet Reservation Multiple Access (A-PRMA) for Broadband Wireless ATM....Pages 167-171
R-TDMA: A Dynamic Multiple Access Protocol Using Bandwidth on Demand and Priorities....Pages 173-180
Performance Evaluation of Reserved Idle Signal Multiple Access with Collision Resolution....Pages 181-188
Performance of PBMA with Contiguous Slot Assignment for Wireless Multimedia Networks....Pages 189-197
Bandwidth Allocation for VBR Video in Wireless ATM Links....Pages 199-213
Asynchronous Mac Protocol for Wireless DS-CDMA Network Carrying Multirate Traffic....Pages 215-222
Simulation Study of Integrated Video, Voice, and Data Transmission in Hybrid-Code DS/CDMA Systems....Pages 223-230
Design Experience with an Integrated Testbed for Wireless Multimedia Computing....Pages 231-238
Performance of Punctured Codes for Wireless ATM Networks....Pages 239-246
OFDM with Diversity and Coding for High-Bit-Rate Mobile Data Applications....Pages 247-254
Impact of Antenna Choices on the Reliability of Mobile Broadband Transmission at Millimetre-Wave Frequencies....Pages 255-265
Signal Processing for an Ultra Low Power Wireless Video Camera....Pages 267-274
Content-Based Video Transmission over Wireless Channels....Pages 275-284
Robust Image Coding and Transport in Wireless Networks Using Non-Hierarchical Decomposition....Pages 285-292
Robustness Considerations in ISO MPEG-4 and ITU-T Mobile Video Standards....Pages 293-300
Video Coding with Adaptive Block Update....Pages 301-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-312

✦ Subjects

Electrical Engineering