Journal's Facebook pageOffensive and Defensive Adaptation in Distributed Multimedia Systems
- Institute of Information Technology, Klagenfurt University
Klagenfurt, Austria - Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
Adaptation in multimedia systems is usually restricted to defensive, reactive media adaptation (often called stream-level adaptation). We argue that offensive, proactive, system-level adaptation deserves not less attention. If a distributed multimedia system cares for overall, end-to-end quality of service then it should provide a meaningful combination of both.
We introduce an adaptive multimedia server (ADMS) and a supporting middleware which implement offensive adaptation based on a lean, flexible architecture. The measured costs and benefits of the offensive adaptation process are presented.
We introduce an intelligent video proxy (QBIX), which implements defensive adaptation. The cost/benefit measurements of QBIX are presented elsewhere [1].
We show the benefits of the integration of QBIX in ADMS. Offensive adaptation is used to find an optimal, user-friendly configuration dynamically for ADMS, and defensive adaptation is added to take usage environment (network and terminal) constraints into account.
Key words
stream-level adaptation, server-level adaptation, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21
Publication information
Volume 1, Issue 1 (February 2004)
Year of Publication: 2004
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium
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Tusch, R., Böszörményi, L., Goldschmidt, B., Hellwagner, H., Schojer, P.: Offensive and Defensive Adaptation in Distributed Multimedia Systems. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, 45-73. (2004)
