In a MANET, there is no need to deploy any infrastructure to make nodes to communicate
with each other. MANETs have unique characteristics that complicate congestion control …

Applications, deployed over a wide area network (WAN) which may connect across
metropolitan, regional or national boundaries, suffer performance degradation owing to …

Providing end-to-end quality of service (QoS) support is essential for video delivery over the
next-generation wireless Internet. We address several key elements in the end-to-end QoS …

Looking back, as we put the finishing touches to this book, it is hard to believe just how
fortunate we have been to complete a project of this type. We were incredibly lucky to have …

The explosive demand for mobile communications is driving the development of wireless
technology at an unprecedented pace. Unfortunately, this exceptional growth is also giving …

As third-generation (3G) wireless networks with high data rate get widely deployed,
optimizing the transmission control protocol (TCP) performance over these networks would …

In this article, we give an overview of several core technologies involved in the next
generation mobile media communications system from both the media codecs and media …

Designing efficient transmission mechanisms for advanced satellite networks is a
demanding task, requiring the definition and the implementation of protocols and …

Delivering multimedia over wireless Internet is a very challenging task. Multimedia delivery
inherently has strict quality of service (QoS) requirement on bandwidth, delay, and delay …

Software based self-testing of embedded processor cores provides an excellent technique
for balancing the testing effort for complex Systems-on-Chip (SoC) between slow …