“…Today's "secondgeneration" cellular telephony networks, such as the global system for mobile communications (GSM), typically provide 10-15 kb/s, suitable for compressed speech, but too little for motion video. Fortunately, the standardization of higher bandwidth networks, such as the universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) [1], [2], is well underway, and, together with continued progress in video Manuscript received January 27, 1998; revised March 11, 1998. The authors are with the Telecommunications Laboratory, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen D-91058 Germany.…”