An adaptive transport service for multimedia streams

Author

Rojas-Cardenas, L. ; Dairaine, L. ; Sénac, P. ; Diaz, M.

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

414

Abstract

The study and the implementation of an adaptive service for multimedia streams based on partial order and partial reliability connections (POC) is presented in this paper. A POC connection provides a service authorized to support both bounded losses and bounded disorder. Such parameters can be used to accurately define the range of conditions over which an adaptive application can perform acceptably. The POC concept is motivated by the fact that heterogeneous switched packet networks are plagued by unordered delivery and packet losses which tax performance of both current protocols and application. The performance of the POC adaptive service is analyzed through one representative multimedia application: a MPEG video server

Keywords

computer network reliability; multimedia communication; packet switching; performance evaluation; protocols; quality of service; video servers; MPEG video server; adaptive transport service; bounded disorder; bounded losses; heterogeneous switched packet networks; multimedia streams; packet losses; partial order connections; partial reliability connections; performance; protocols; unordered delivery; Application software; Communication networks; Communication switching; Computer networks; Network servers; Packet switching; Performance analysis; Protocols; Quality of service; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0253-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1999.778474

Filename

778474