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
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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. Thi...

Table of Contents:

• Evaluating QoS in a Multi-Access Wireless Network / Ronan Skehill
• Radio Resource Management Strategies for HSDPA-Enhanced UMTS Networks / Dirk Staehle, Andreas Mäder
• Handoff Management in Next Generation Wireless Networks / Nidal Nasser, Tarek Bejaoui
• Resource Management in IEEE 802.11 Based Wireless Networks / Ming Li ... [et al.]
• Adaptive Codec Selection for VoIP in Multi-Rate WLANs / Anna Sfairopoulou, Carlos Macián, Boris Bellalta
• Buffer Control Techniques for QoS Provisioning in Wireless Networks / Michael M. Markou, Christos G. Panayiotou
• Power Saving in Wireless Multimedia Streaming to Mobile Devices / Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Janet Adams
• Multimedia Services Provision in MANETs / Jose Luis Jodra, Fidel Liberal, Begoña Blanco Jauregi
• Quality Assurance in the IMS-Based NGN Environment / Andrej Kos, Mojca Volk, Janez Bester
• Quality of Experience for Video Services / Marcio Nieblas Zapater, Graça Bressan
• Perceptual Voice Quality Measurements for Wireless Networks / Dorel Picovici, John Nelson
• Enhancing the Multimedia Tour Guide Experience: Transmission Tailoring Based on Content, Location, and Device Type / Tacha Serif, Gheorghita Ghinea
• PQoS Assessment Methods for Multimedia Services / Harilaos Koumaras, Fidel Liberal, Lingfen Sun
• Scheduling and Access Control for Wireless Connections with Throughput Guarantees / Peifang Zhang, Scott Jordan
• Broadband Satellite Multimedia Networks / Paolo Chini, Giovanni Giambene, Snezana Hadzic
• End-to-End Support for Multimedia QoS in the Internet / Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Vassilis Tsaoussidis
• Cross-Layer Radio Resource Management Protocols for QoS Provisioning in Multimedia Wireless Networks / Tarek Bejaoui, Nidal Nasser
• Transport Protocols and QoS for Wireless Multimedia / Gürkan Gür, Suzan Bayhan, Fatih Alagöz.