The brave new world of online digital home entertainment

Author

But, Jason ; Nguyen, Thuy T T ; Armitage, Grenville

Author_Institution

Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Hawthorn, Vic., Australia

Volume

43

Issue

5

fYear

2005

fDate

5/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

89

Abstract

The emergence of widespread broadband home Internet connectivity is leading to a change in patterns of home user online behavior. Innovative networked applications (e.g., online multimedia and gaming) are making their mark. Will the next killer Internet applications be new forms of online digital home entertainment? Can the Internet support a widespread explosion in the use of such applications? In this article we explore potential problems in running interactive multimedia and game applications over existing Internet and home access network infrastructures. We also discuss the issues both network and application developers should consider when designing new Internet entertainment applications such that widespread usage becomes a possibility.

Keywords

Internet; broadband networks; home computing; multimedia communication; quality of service; Internet; QoS; home access network; interactive multimedia; online digital home entertainment; quality of service; widespread broadband home Internet connectivity; Bandwidth; DSL; Explosions; Hybrid fiber coaxial cables; IP networks; Modems; Multimedia systems; Optical fiber cables; Streaming media; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2005.1453427

Filename

1453427