ABSTRACT
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic growth in multimedia applications, due to the tremendous advancement in several emerging technologies in digital media, communications, and networking. Multimedia data in a variety of popular formats such as image, animation, audio, and video have become the mainstream contents on the Internet and are being accessed by various mobile devices through wireless links. The diverse deployment of multimedia applications has been driving the field of multimedia communications and networking into a new era of true ubiquitous media consumption at any time and from anywhere.
