Guest Editorial: Wireless multimedia transmission technology and application

摘要

The rapid expansion of wireless services from voice communication to high performance multimedia communication in recent years is an indication that significant value is placed on portable multimedia applications as key innovations for both academia and industry. The emerging wireless multimedia transmission techniques can be used for various pervasive and ubiquitous applications such as health care, environmental monitoring, security and surveillance. There are a number of important challenges that arise when time-constrained multimedia streams are transmitted in these new wireless systems.