Preface

Abstract

It can be observed that the Internet traffic generated by multiplayer computer games, radio broadcasts, music files, videos, etc. is rapidly increasing. No doubt, the future Internet will carry more and more traffic related to different multimedia applications. It is also envisaged that future "in home" networks will be also mostly used for such purposes. Even the 3G mobile telephony is being marketed as a vehicle for watching television programs while on the move. The similar trend can be observed in most of the current research in the area of communication systems and networks, i.e. the envisaged application are high volumes of data generated by multimedia applications delivered with the certain level of the quality of service (QoS) to mobile customers.
This special issue on the Multimedia Communications contains selected papers from the 3rd Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing, WITSP’2005, which was held in December 2004 in Adelaide, South Australia. (...)