Challenging the mobile multimedia frontier over IMT-2000 network

Author

Etoh, Minoru

Author_Institution

Multimedia Labs., NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Abstract

NTT DoCoMo is the company to "DO Communications over the Mobile Network", and has 36 million subscribers in April 2001. This presentation covers DoCoMo\´s multimedia services over IMT-2000. DoCoMo\´s IMT-2000 network (i.e., one of Japan\´s third generation mobile networks) allows us to have transmission speeds of 384 kbps. With the benefit of this broader bandwidth, mobile multimedia services are expected to run on top of the network. Mobile visual phones and media streaming on demand are typical applications, as well as enhanced "i-mode" services that provide us with the ability to access Internet contents written in compact HTML, and to exchange e-mails faster than ever. For such applications, we have newly developed coding technologies such as MPEG-4, and related system technologies. After introducing the applications for wireless video with its coding technologies, future challenges and directions beyond the IMT-2000 network are discussed

Keywords

Internet; broadband networks; cellular radio; electronic mail; multimedia communication; video coding; videotelephony; 384 kbit/s; IMT 2000 network; Internet contents; MPEG-4; NTT DoCoMo; coding technologies; compact HTML; e-mails; i-mode; media streaming; mobile multimedia; mobile visual phones; third generation mobile networks; wireless video; Bandwidth; Electronic mail; HTML; Laboratories; MPEG 4 Standard; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Streaming media; Subscriptions; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Thessaloniki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6725-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2001.958179

Filename

958179