This book discusses the evolving designs and applications of multimedia content delivery and focuses on computing-based methods. It offers readers an in-depth understanding of how computational resources at both the source and the destination of the networking continuum can be exploited. This enhances the overall performance of multimedia data networking.
This book also presents novel designs and applications focusing on information delivery based on computing. It starts with an overview of the multimedia computational communications as well as spanning topics. The topics range in experience evaluation using electroencephalography, semantic knowledge bases with the next generation of multiple access, end-to-end semantic communication framework and cloud-edge-end intelligent coordination computing. The authors believe this book offers readers a clear picture of the current state and the next steps in multimedia computational communication networks.
Alongside the developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI), this book spans the framework of wireless multimedia communication powered by computing. According to Shannon and Weaver’s theory, the first level of communication is syntactic communication, where the communication system serves as a pipeline for accurately transmitting information symbols. As we look back at the development of wireless multimedia design, the goal of transmission was to accurately recover the signal transmitted by content providers, through scheduling, source coding, channel coding, and resource allocation. However, as multimedia has become more complex and user-centric, we need to reevaluate the technical efficiency of multimedia systems. This book presents each link in the communication system with case studies and matching algorithms to demonstrate how emerging AI technologies can benefit wireless computing multimedia systems.
Graduate students majoring in the areas of communication networks, Computer Science and engineering and electrical engineering will find this book useful as a secondary text or reference book. Professionals and researchers working in computational transmission solutions for multimedia communication networks will find this book to be a valuable resource as well.