Advances in wireless multimedia communication technologies enable new types of
pervasive and ubiquitous applications such as mobile health care, environmental …

Driven by the increasing popularity of wireless broadband services, future wireless systems
will witness a rapid growth of high-data-rate applications with very diverse quality of service …

We consider a situation where a video sequence is to be compressed and transmitted over a
wireless channel. Our goal is to limit the amount of distortion in the received video …

A cross-layer packet scheduling scheme that streams pre-encoded video over wireless
downlink packet access networks to multiple users is presented. The scheme can be used …

Adapting video data rate during streaming can effectively reduce the risk of playback
interruptions caused by channel throughput fluctuations. The variations in rate, however …

Mobile satellite services are extremely important when continuity of service is requested
while the user is moving over a wide area. A notable example is represented by live TV …

The compression or coding of a signal (eg, speech, text, image, video) has been a topic of
great interest for a number of years. Numerous results and successful compression …

The use of variable data rate can reduce network latency and average power consumption,
and automatic rate selection is critical for improving scalability and minimizing network …

Current cellular networks support video streaming over unicast or multicast. However, there
exists a tradeoff between utilizing the two: i) unicast leads to higher network load, but lower …

Multimedia applications involving the transmission of video over communication networks
are rapidly increasing in popularity. Such applications can greatly benefit from adapting …