Imagine there is a public speaking square in your city, much like the ancient Greek agora. Here you can freely share your ideas without censorship. But there’s one key difference. Someone decides, for ...

Despite critics claims, acceptance of voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology continues to gain ground in the enterprise and core network. With standards like PacketCable and 3GPP emerging, VoIP is also set ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...