r sublease/borrow, 128 coaxial and strip lines, 44-5 Spectrum Policy Task Force (SPTF), 128 coupled lines, 45 SR control packet, 238 microstrip and slot lines, 45 sRGB color space, 469 twin lines, 45 SSRC, 235-6 waveguides and coplanar waveguides, 44 Index Transmission lines (continued) Vanu Anywave™ BaseStation, 118 of finite length, 54 Variable bandwidth, 70 general properties, 42-4 Variable bit rate (VBR), 168, 174 line characteristic impedances and physical parameters, 45 Variable length coding (VLC), 503, 509 coaxial line characteristic impedance, 46 Varying queuing delay, 238 microstrip line characteristic impedance, 46-8 Vertical sync, 464 twin parallel wire characteristic impedance, 46 propagation constant, 59-62 Very small aperture terminal (VSAT) systems, 6, 8 reflection transmission coefficients, 54 Video, introduction to: mismatched loss, 57 analog VS. digital, 463 return loss, 56-7 application block diagrams, 466 transmission coefficient, 57 Digital media adapters, 467 voltage reflection coefficient, 55-6 Digital television set-top boxes, 467 voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR), 57-8 DVD player, 466-7 VSWR and reflection coefficient, 58 audio and video compression, 465-6 signal propagation on, 52-3 resolution, 465 typical commercial cable impedances, 52 timing, 464-5 waveform distortion and frequency dispersion, 53-4 video data, 463-4 Transmission policy, 224 Video compression, 501 Transmission Time Interval (TTI), 308 application, 505-6 Transmit power control (TPC), 425 closing remarks, 521 Transverse electromagnetic mode wave (TEM), 145 digital video signals and formats, 506 Transverse electromagnetic waves (TEM waves), 141 analog video signals, sampling of, 506-8 Tree-structured VQ, 504 digital video formats, 508-9, 510 Trellis-coded modulation (TCM), 211, 407 techniques, 509 Tristimulus values, 478 discrete cosine transform (DCT), 511-13 TSG RAN, 262, 270 entropy and predictive coding, 510-11 Tuned radio frequency receiver, 36-7 motion compensation and estimation, 514-16 Turbo codes, 205, 214-15, 