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Schaar and Chou have assembled an up to date collection of papers on current issues in doing multimedia over the Internet and also over a cellphone network. The papers or chapters vary considerably in their subjects. Some, like Chapter 7, takes us back to the basics of Shannon's theorems for the capacities of channels, and for codings that are used in these channels. That particular chapter is a good and concise foray into its subject. While it may not actually give the state of the art, it prepares the reader for the following chapters that are more on the cutting edge of research. Overall, there is roughly equal coverage of both the Internet and wireless nets. One aspect prominent in both is the Quality of Service. For real time streaming multimedia, this is the critical issue. And it is heavily discussed. With perhaps a slightly greater emphasis in a wireless net.
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www.sharexxx.net - free books & magazines MULTIMEDIA OVER IP AND WIRELESS NETWORKS This page intentionally left blank MULTIMEDIA OVER IP AND WIRELESS NETWORKS COMPRESSION, NETWORKING, AND SYSTEMS Edited by Philip A. Chou Microsoft Corporation Mihaela van der Schaar University of California, Los Angeles AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA 84 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8RR, UK ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright © 2007, Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter 9 – Portions reprinted, with permission, from Raouf Hamzaoui, Vladimir Stankovic, and Zixiang Xiong, “Optimized error protection of scalable image