Introducing mobile multimedia - the technologies, digitalrights management and everything else you need to know fordelivering cost efficient multimedia to mobile terminals
Efficiency and cost effectiveness within multimedia delivery isfast becoming a hot topic in wireless communications, with mobileoperators competing to offer inexpensive, reliable services. Theselection of an appropriate technology and matching it with theoffered mix of services will be essential to achieve the marketsuccess.
Multimedia Broadcasting and Multicasting in MobileNetworks discusses multimedia services, introducing thepotentials and limitations of the multicasting and broadcastingtechnologies. The authors address the key points related to thedeployment of the technology including digital rights managementissues, particularly important in terms of the large, businessscale deployment of multimedia services and business models. Thebook discusses the early trials and deployment of Internet ProtocolDatacasting (IPDC) and Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service(MBMS) and offers an introduction to multicasting in wirelesscellular networks.
Multimedia Broadcasting and Multicasting in MobileNetworks:
* Offers a tutorial introduction to multicasting in wirelesscellular networks
* Provides an overview of the current technologies that delivermobile multimedia, weighing of the potentials and limitations ofvarious solutions
* Includes the early trials and deployment of Internet ProtocolDatacasting (IPDC) and Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service(MBMS)
* Details Digital Rights Management (DRM), MediaFLO, DigitalMultimedia Broadcasting (DMB), Terrestrial Integrated ServicesDigital Broadcasting (ISDB-T) and others
* Contains business models, trials and user feedback
This book provides mobile operators, graduate engineers, networkdesigners and strategists in mobile engineering with a thoroughunderstanding of mobile multimedia and its impact on thetelecommunications industry. Undergraduate and postgraduatestudents studying telecommunications will also find this book ofinterest.
Grzegorz Iwacz
Communication Technology - Networks Drahtlose Kommunikation Electrical & Electronics Engineering Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik Kommunikationsnetz Kommunikationsnetze Mobile & Wireless Communications