Java-based proactive buffering for multimedia streaming continuity in the wireless Internet

New challenging deployment scenarios are accommodating portable devices with limited and heterogeneous capabilities that roam among wireless access localities during service provisioning with session continuity requirements, such as in multimedia streaming. The paper proposes an original two-level buffering strategy to maintain streaming continuity independently of client roaming at provision time. In particular, it focuses on a specific component of the proposed support infrastructure, i.e., the pure Java buffering component, which has been shown to outperform the standard Java Media Framework in both streaming initialization time and imposed overhead.