Wireless systems and portable multimedia

Next generation networks no doubt will include various types of multimedia data, ranging from real-time news updates to audiovisual multicast events. Multimedia terminals play an integral role in the overall information access fabric. While traditional desktop and settop terminals most likely will continue with the existing technology, portable and wireless multimedia terminals have lots of research and development issues to be solved. This paper starts with reviewing current technology through some existing consumer-grade portable multimedia devices and then investigates various research topics of next generation portable and wireless multimedia access.