This book provides a complete and comprehensive overview of 3G UMTS charging services

Evolving from offline billing of traditional telecommunications, charging for IP services in mobile networks is challenging; charging convergence is one of the major trends in the telecom industry. Advanced mobile telecommunications incorporates data applications with real-time control and management, and requires a convergent and flexible online charging system. Such convergence is essential to mitigate fraud and credit risks in order to provide more personalized information to users about charges...

A comprehensive presentation of the video communication techniques and systems, this book examines 4G wireless systems which are set to revolutionise ubiquitous multimedia communication.4G Wireless Video Communications covers the fundamental theory and looks at systems' descriptions with a focus on digital video. It addresses the key topics associated with multimedia communication on 4G networks, including advanced video coding standards, error resilience and error concealment techniques, as well as advanced content-analysis and adaptation techniques for video communications,...

This title introduces protocols for multimedia services and presents the analytical frameworks for measuring their performance in wireless networks. It also shows how to fine-tune the parameters for Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning as it affects the next generation wireless Internet.

"Wireless Personal Area Networks" provides an in-depth analysis of the recent IEEE 802.15.4 standard for low data rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs), including suggestions to improve performance and comparisons with the related 802.15.1 (Bluetooth) standard. It assesses the suitability of the standard for the development and deployment of wireless sensor networks as well as providing guidance and insight into the relative advantages and disadvantages of various performance solutions.

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Wireless Multi-Antenna Channels: Modeling and Simulation focuses on modeling and simulation of multiple antennas channels, including multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication channels and impact of such models on channel estimation and system performance. Both narrowband and wideband models are discussed.

This book provides a cross-disciplinary reference to speech in mobile and pervasive environments

Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments addresses the issues related to speech processing on resource-constrained mobile devices. These include speech recognition in noisy environments, specialised hardware for speech recognition and synthesis, the use of context to enhance recognition and user experience, and the emerging software standards required for interoperability. This book takes a multi-disciplinary look at these matters, while offering an insight into the opportunities and...