Adaptive scheme for streaming MPEG-4 contents to various devices

Multimedia contents can be provided to various environments such as home networking, video conferencing, tele-education, etc. These service environments are equipped with different end devices. MPEG-4 is the international standard for audio-visual presentation. Thus, it can be effectively applied to the multimedia contents service domain. This paper suggests a novel adaptive scheme that is capable of bridging the gap between the sender and receiver when MPEG-4 contents are transmitted. In particular, an adaptive algorithm is proposed in streaming proper MPEG-4 waves to a specific type of terminals with different presentation capabilities such as data processing rate and throughput of network conditions.