Handbook of research on wireless multimedia quality of service and solutions /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Cranley, Nicola., Murphy, Liam.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Multimedia communications > Handbooks, manuals, etc. > Quality control; Wireless communication systems > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Broadband satellite; Buffer control techniques; MANETs; Mobile devices; NGN environment; QoS; Radio resource management; Resource management; Streaming; Transport protocols; Video services; VoIP; Wireless multimedia; Wireless network; WLAN
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xxiv, 517 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-504) and index.
• ISBN: 9781599048239 (ebook); 159904823X (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

The recent rapid advances in wireless technologies have created a demand for high quality multimedia applications and services. These advanced multimedia applications give rise to a new set of challenges in providing Quality of Service (QoS) when delivering these services over wireless networks. This handbook highlights and discusses the underlying QoS issues that arise in the delivery of real-time multimedia services over wireless networks. It presents state-of-the-art solutions from leading researchers active in the field to address the QoS issues for different wireless multimedia applications.