Wireless multimedia communication through multichannel multipoint distribution service

Author

Biagini, William ; Yang, Ning

Author_Institution

GTE Labs. Inc., Waltham, MA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

98

Lastpage

103

Abstract

The multichannel multipoint distribution service (MMDS) spectrum has been the focus for a variety of business ventures and technologies over the past twenty years and is anticipated to be the at the forefront for competitive multimedia services to the consumer in the near future. We review the architecture and technical challenges encountered in the design and deployment of a digital video broadcast system for the island of Oahu. Such networks provide insight to the technical challenges and potential solutions in future two way systems

Keywords

digital video broadcasting; multimedia communication; 6 MHz; MMDS spectrum; Oahu; bandwidth; business ventures; digital video broadcast system; experimental results; multichannel multipoint distribution service; multimedia services; system architecture; two way systems; wireless multimedia communication; Bandwidth; Data communication; Digital video broadcasting; FCC; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Satellite broadcasting; TV broadcasting; Video compression; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2000. Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0540-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2000.844190

Filename

844190