Intelligent Integrated Media Communication Techniques: COST 254 & COST 276

Current digital technology in 2003 in the area of fixed and mobile personal terminals offers many advantages and promises a lot of amazing services in the near future. The expected digital mobile terminal technologies are driving the development of new and challenging user-oriented services. This work contains many examples and applied methods explaining the basic architecture of the mobile terminals. It contains sufficient introductory material to enable non-expert readers to understand the topics and to make a step towards system integration of complex future applications.