A novel concept for fourth generation mobile multimedia communication

A view of the world-wide developments in the field of wireless broadband multimedia communications is given first. Taking this into account, a multi-disciplinary approach is presented as a combination of: promising applications, novel user-interfaces, compression, protocols geared to the mobile user and transmission techniques that give abundant bandwidth to the user. The insights of each of the research topics that contribute on the path towards the fourth generation mobile multimedia communication is presented.