Includes bibliographical references and index.

Multimedia coding techniques for wireless networks / Anastasios Delopoulos -- Multimedia transport protocols for wireless networks / Pantelis Balaouras and Ioannis Stavrakakis -- Multimedia control protocols for wireless networks / Pedro M. Ruiz ... [et al.] -- Multimedia wireless local area networks / Sai Shankar N -- Wireless multimedia personal area networks : an overview / Minal Mishra, Aniruddha Rangnekar and Krishna M. Sivalingam -- QoS provision in wireless multimedia networks / Nikos Passas and Apostolis K. Salkintzis -- Wireless multimedia in 3G networks / George Xylomenos and Vasilis Vogkas -- Wireless application protocol (WAP) / Alessandro Andreadis and Giovanni Giambene -- Multimedia messaging service (MMS) / Alessandro Andreadis and Giovanni Giambene -- Instant messaging and presence service (IMPS) / John Buford and Mahfuzur Rahman -- Instant messaging enabled mobile payments / Stamatis Karnouskos ... [et al.] -- Push-to-talk : a first step to a unified instant communication future / Johanna Wild, Michael Sasuta and Mark Shaughnessy -- Location based services / Ioannis Priggouris, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades and Giannis Marias.