Wireless video communications encompass a broad range of issues and opportunities that serve as the catalyst for technical innovations. To disseminate the most recent advances in this challenging yet exciting field, Advanced Video Communications over Wireless Networks provides an in-depth look at the fundamentals, recent technical achievements, challenges, and emerging trends in mobile and wireless video communications.
The editors have carefully selected a panel of researchers with expertise in diverse aspects of wireless video communication to cover a wide spectrum of topics, including the underlying theoretical fundamentals associated with wireless video communications, the transmission schemes tailored to mobile and wireless networks, quality metrics, the architectures of practical systems, as well as some novel directions. They address future directions, including Quality-of-Experience in wireless video communications, video communications over future networks, and 3D video communications.
The book presents a collection of tutorials, surveys, and original contributions, providing an up-to-date, accessible reference for further development of research and applications in mobile and wireless video communication systems. The range of coverage and depth of expertise make this book the go-to resource for facing current and future challenges in this field.
"The editors have presented a compilation of 15 peer-reviewed chapters from several well-known researchers in the area of wireless video technologies to provide an overview of the state of the art, challenges, and emerging trends. ? The chapters in this book are written in a way that renders them useful for a broad spectrum of readers, from undergraduate students right to researchers/practitioners. All chapters have significant background information and also provide references for follow-up."-Satyajayant Misra, from IEEE Wireless Communications, February 2015
