A comprehensive resource on multimedia communications. Covers recent trends and standardization activities in multimedia communications, such as layered structures, underlying theories and the current best design techniques. Describes the convergence of various technologies including communications, broadcasting, information technology, and home electronics, and emerging new communication services and applications resulting from the growth of the Internet and wireless technologies. Please go to www-ee.uta.edu/dip for additional information.

With the rapid evolution of multimedia communications, engineers and other professionals are generally forced to hoard a plethora of different texts and journals to maintain a solid grasp on essential ideas and techniques in the field. Wireless Multimedia Communications provides researchers and students with a primary reference to help readers take maximum advantage of current systems and uncover opportunities to propose new and novel protocols, applications, and services.

Extract the Essentials of System Design, Analysis, Implementation
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Design Analysis and Implementation. Rapid development in software, hardware, mobile networks, and the potential of interactive media poses many questions for operators, manufacturers, and researchers of wireless multimedia communication systems WMCSs. This book strives to answer those questions by not only covering the underlying principles involved in the design, analysis, and implementation of WMCSs, but also by tackling advanced topics such as mobility management, wireless mesh and multimedia sensor networks, security components, and smart grids.