Interactive cellular and cordless video telephony: State-of-the-art system design principles and expected performance

Second-generation (2G) mobile radio standards have not been designed with video communications in mind, although the employment of error-resilient, constant-bit-rate proprietary video codecs over these systems is realistic. The third-generation (3G) systems are capable of providing higher rates and better communications integrity in support of video applications. This paper advocates the employment of burst-by-burst adaptive transceivers, which are capable of accommodating the time-variant channel quality fluctuation of wireless channels. This paper is concluded with a range of performance figures and system design guidelines for wireless systems.