Title :
Handling multimedia data for mobile computers
Author :
Perkins, Charles E.
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
Mobile clients have unusual needs for sending and receiving multimedia data. The traditional client/server paradigm does not take into account variable network conditions; thus traditional client/server applications have no capability of responding to intermittent connectivity, changing cost structures, or the kind of fluctuations in available bandwidth which are characteristic of wireless links. Two approaches towards allowing such adaptations are presented for comparison: proxies and modifications to client and server
Keywords :
client-server systems; mobile communication; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; portable computers; bandwidth; client/server paradigm; cost structures; intermittent connectivity; mobile clients; mobile computers; multimedia data handling; proxies; variable network conditions; wireless links; Application software; Bandwidth; Costs; Cryptography; Filtering; Filters; Fluctuations; Mobile computing; Network interfaces; Network servers;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1996. COMPSAC '96., Proceedings of 20th International
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7579-9
DOI :
10.1109/CMPSAC.1996.544150
