Near-Capacity Wireless Multimedia Communications in the Iterative Detection Era

Wireless multimedia communication devices are becoming ever more powerful and sophisticated, as seen on television. More and more business and personal users are relying on them for a variety of uses. This course reviews the most recent trends, techniques and system components in the field of wireless multimedia communications. The key benefits of this tutorial are to: become familiar with the architecture of wireless multimedia systems, understand the limitations of wireless multimedia systems, become aware of powerful burst-by-burst adaptive modulation and transmission techniques in the context of single and multi-carrier or OFDM systems as well as multi-user detection CDMA, cover the basics of turbo coding, turbo equalisation and turbo trellis coding, be familiar with state-of-the-art multimedia source coding.