Compressed Video Communications addresses the compression and transmission of coded video streams over mobile IP networks. By analysing a broad spectrum of compression techniques and error resilience algorithms this book provides realistic solutions to the problems of quality degradation and transmission error.

Features include:

• Discussion of the real-time transmission of coded video streams over mobile IP packet networks such as GPRS and UMTS, at both application and transport level.
• Descriptions of relevant rate control schemes such as bit rate regulation, scaleability and resolution reduction.
• Evaluation of the performance of compression techniques and comparison of available video coding standards.
• Comprehensive overview of homogeneous and heterogeneous video transcoding algorithms and error resilient transcoders.
• Examination of error control in video communications including coverage of error resilience and decoder-based error concealment.
• Accompanying CD-ROM containing 50 video clips illustrating the temporal and spatial quality achieved by the compression techniques outlined in the text.