Editorial: Mobile Multimedia Communications

Guest Editorial: Mobile Multimedia Communications

The papers in this special issue represent the seven best papers from the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MOMUC'99), which was held in San Diego, November 15–17, 1999. The scope of MO-MUC'99 includes broadband wireless networking for data and multimedia, mobile multimedia systems and applications together with associated mobile computing devices, video proce...

Special Issue Editorial Preface: Mobile Multimedia for Business Data Communications

Editorial : Multimedia , Communications , Services and Security

“Multimedia, Communications, Services and Security” has been an important research topic in recent years and a key part of innovative ICT projects. In particular, numerous intelligent systems benefit from the integration of tools and solutions proposed by scientists, such as image, video and audio processing, development of intelligent sensors, interlinking heterogeneous subsystems with intraan...

Cognitive Radio for Flexible Mobile Multimedia Communications

Wireless multimedia applications require significant bandwidth, some of which will be provided by third-generation (3G) services. Even with substantial investment in 3G infrastructure, the radio spectrum allocated to 3G will be limited. Cognitive radio offers a mechanism for the flexible pooling of radio spectrum using a new class of protocols called formal radio etiquettes. This approach could...

Editorial: Special Issue on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications

The evolution of wireless communications is bringing the world to a different way of experiencing and producingmultimedia content. As a result, users are having an increasingly active role in the definition of networks. The chosen topic for the conference that was at the basis of this special issue was thus the pursuit of a really autonomous network infrastructure that will allow the efficient ...