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Book Description

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.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Contributors
  9. 1. Network-Aware Error-Resilient Video Coding
  10. 2. Distributed Video Coding: Principles and Challenges
  11. 3. Computer Vision–Aided Video Coding
  12. 4. Macroblock Classification Method for Computation Control Video Coding and Other Video Applications Involving Motions
  13. 5. Transmission Rate Adaptation in Multimedia WLAN: A Dynamic Games Approach
  14. 6. Energy and Bandwidth Optimization in Mobile Video Streaming Systems
  15. 7. Resource Allocation for Scalable Videos over Cognitive Radio Networks
  16. 8. Cooperative Video Provisioning in Mobile Wireless Environments
  17. 9. Multilayer Iterative FEC Decoding for Video Transmission over Wireless Networks
  18. 10. Network-Adaptive Rate and Error Controls for WiFi Video Streaming
  19. 11. State of the Art and Challenges for 3D Video Delivery over Mobile Broadband Networks
  20. 12. A New Hierarchical 16-QAM Based UEP Scheme for 3-D Video with Depth Image Based Rendering
  21. 13. 2D-to-3D Video Conversion: Techniques and Applications in 3D Video Communications
  22. 14. Combined CODEC and Network Parameters for an Enhanced Quality of Experience in Video Streaming
  23. 15. Video QoS Analysis over Wi-Fi Networks
  24. Index