[内容简介]

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.

[目录]

Fundamentals of Mobile and Wireless Video Communications
Fundamentals of video coding State-of-the-art video coding Multiple description coding Distributed video coding Energy management of video coding Power constraint video coding R-D analysis and modeling Relationship between power consumption and R-D performance Rate control for wireless video communication Introduction of wireless/mobile networks Network coding for video communications Joint source network coding Game theoretic models for video communications

Wireless Video Communications: When Video Coding Meets Mobile and Wireless Networks
Multiple access for wireless video Network-adaptive video communications Video adaption for wireless communications Video streaming over cognitive radio networks Wireless P2P video streaming Wireless video protocols and standards Retransmission techniques for wireless video communications Congestion control and traffic engineering for wireless video communications Cross-layer design and optimization techniques for wireless video communications Network technologies for emerging broadband multimedia services Cloud/Grid-based content management and delivery Multimedia in femtocells Distributed multimedia networking Green multimedia networking Multimedia over future networks

Quality-of-Experience in Mobile and Wireless Video Communications
Metrics of Quality-of-Experience Modeling of Quality-of-Experience in mobile and wireless video communications Subjective testing methodologies of Quality-of-Experience Quality-of-Experience support for video delivery over mobile and wireless networks Quality-of-Experience based resource management Quality-of-Experience feedback Quality-of-Experience versus Quality-of-Service