ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the importance of the fact that it is essential to ensure that the network is well designed to achieve a good compromise between the service quality and the radio resource efficiency in a system that has limited resources in comparison to wired networks. Three-dimensional (3D) video is an emerging technology that allows enjoying 3D movies, TV programs, and video games by creating the illusion of depth in the images displayed on the screen. The side-by-side technique applies horizontal subsampling to the left and right views, thus reducing their horizontal resolution by 50%. One of the fundamental requirements that should be taken into consideration in the development and deployment of 3D video services, such as mobile 3DTV over mobile broadband networks, is backward compatibility. The envisaged source 3D video representation format is based on a multilayered 3D video bit stream.
