Wireless Multimedia
The strong emergence of the internet and internet based techniques to provide multimedia services to the mass market
Good quality internet access requires a couple of hundred Kb/s peak rate to download information from the Web. Picture transfer, slow scan video require few tens of Kbit/s, good quality video require roughly 2 Mbit/s
2 Mbit/s on a W-CDMA carrier allows:
A typical Web-browsing application for about 130 simultaneous active users
Each having 384 Kbit/s packet access
Traffic model assumes: average page size 40 KB, every sixth page is read more carefully
Giving an average access time per page of 20s