On the application of continuous media filters over wireless networks

The increasing demand for ubiquitous access to real time multimedia over the Internet necessitates mechanisms that support various notions of quality of service. The authors present filtering as a mechanism for tailoring streams to the transmission characteristics of wireless links and the capabilities of the receiving devices, in an attempt to preserve a requested quality of service. We analyze the differences between filtering for multicasting and for wireless Web access and outline MobiWeb, our proxy and filter based architecture for wireless Web access. We validate our approach with simulation results