ABSTRACT

Beyond Networks 344 9.3Mobile Multimedia Communications: 4G and Beyond 345

9.3.1 Various Multimedia Services 345 9.3.2 5G, MIMO, and Home Networks 346 9.3.3 Streaming Video over 5G Wireless Networks 348 9.3.4 QoS, Energy, and Bandwidth Optimization in

5G Mobile Multimedia Applications 349 9.4 Wireless Technology in Massive Crowds 350

9.4.1 Flash Crowds and the Offload Solution 350 9.4.2 Femtocell Approach 351

Video streaming is part of a larger topic of content delivery. The term content delivery network (CDN) will be used throughout this chapter to refer to a provider of the delivery service. Although this chapter is on wireless delivery, the network is considered a nontrivial mix of wired and wireless parts.