Digital video in a fading interference wireless environment

Much research and development related to digital video has targeted storage, wired backbone, and broadcast wireless transport environments. We address video transport in a heterogeneous network, especially with interference- and fading dominated wireless access, such as a cellular local-area or wide-area network. It is expected that multimedia (including video) will be an important application for desktop computers, and this suggests offering similar wireless capabilities. We note a number of deficiencies in existing video compression standards such as MPEG for this environment, and identify a number of challenging new research issues