Laios Hanzo, Universitv of Southamoton, UK
Lajos Hanzo is currently chair of Telecommunications at University of Southampton in the department of Electronics and Computer Science. He has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK over his 30-year career in communications. The author of over 600 research papers and co-author of over 30 books Hanzo is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the Communications Society and the Vehicular Technology Society and Governor of the IEEE VT Society.

Dr. Peter J. Cherriman, University of Southampton, UK
Peter Cherriman is currently at the University of Southampton. He is also working on projects for the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence, U.K. His current areas of research include robust video coding, microcellular radio systems, power control, dynamic channel allocation, and multiple access protocols.

Dr. Jurgen Streit, University of Southampton, UK
Jurgen Streit is also at the University of Southampton, working with the Mobile Multimedia Communications Research Group. He is also a software consultant.

Since the publication of Wireless Video Communications five years ago, the area of video compression and wireless transceivers has evolved even further. This new edition addresses a range of recent developments in these areas, giving cognizance to the associated transmission aspects and issues of error resilience.
Video Compression and Communications has been updated and condensed yet remains all-encompassing, giving a comprehensive overview of the subject. Covering compression issues, coding delay, implementational complexity and bitrate, the book also looks at the historical perspective to video communication.
* New edition of successful and informative text, Wireless Video Communications
* Substantial new material has been added on areas such as H.264, MPEG4 coding and transceivers
* Clear presentation and broad scope make it essential for anyone interested in wireless communications
* Systematically converts the lessons of Shannon's information theory into design principles applicable to practical wireless systems.
This book is ideal for postgraduates and researchers in communication systems but will also be a valuable reference to undergraduates, development and systems engineers of video compression applications as well as industrialists, managers and visual communications practitioners.

Contents
About the Authors
Other Wiley and IEEE Press Books on Related Topics
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
I Video Codecs for HSDPA-Style Adaptive Videophones
2 Fractal Image Codecs
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x CONTENTS
3 Low Bit-Rate DCT Codecs and HSDPA-Style Videophones
CONTENTS xi
4 Low Bit-Rate VQ Codecs and HSDPA-Style Videophones
xii CONTENTS
5 Low Bit-Rate Quad-Tree-Based Codecs and HSDPA-Style Videophones
II High-Resolution Video Coding
6 Low-Complexity Techniques
CONTENTS xiii
7 High-Resolution DCT Coding
III H.261, H.263, H.264, MPEG2 and MPEG 4 for
HSDPA-Style Wireless Video Telephony and DVB
8 H.261 for HSDPA-Style Wireless Video Telephony
xiv CONTENTS
9 Comparison of the H.261 and H.263 Codecs
CONTENTS xv
Luminance
10 H.263 for HSDPA-Style Wireless Video Telephony
Frames
xvi CONTENTS
11 MPEG-4 Video Compression
12 Comparative Study of the MPEG-4 and H.264 Codecs
Transform Process
CONTENTS xvii
13 MPEG-4 Bitstream and Bit-Sensitivity Study
14 HSDPA-Like and Turbo-Style Adaptive Single- and Multi-Carrier
Video Systems
xviii CONTENTS
OFDM Transceivers
Target Bit Rates
CONTENTS xix
Channel
Glossary
Bibliography
Subject Index
Author Index