A distributed synchronization scheme for multimedia streams in mobile systems: proof and correctness

Author

Boukerche, Azzedine ; Hong, Sungbum ; Jacob, Tom

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Texas Univ., Denton, TX, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

638

Lastpage

645

Abstract

The rapid development in portable computing platforms, distributed multimedia systems and wireless communication technologies has led to a significant interest in mobile multimedia and wireless networking. Video entertainment and multimedia Internet access over wireless networks are examples of future wireless personal communication systems. These, however, incur challenging technological issues. The synchronization of the multimedia objects among mobile clients is one of the most important of these issues. The task of synchronization in wireless multimedia systems is to eliminate variations and delays incurred during the transmission of multiple-media streams and to maintain the temporal order among the various media streams. We propose an efficient distributed multimedia synchronization algorithm for wireless and mobile multimedia systems to ensure and facilitate mobile clients´ access to multimedia objects. We discuss the algorithm and provide its formal proof and correctness

Keywords

Internet; cellular radio; delays; distributed algorithms; jitter; mobile computing; multimedia communication; personal communication networks; protocols; synchronisation; Internet access; cellular wireless communication network; delays; distributed algorithm; distributed multimedia; mobile clients; mobile wireless communication; multimedia streams; personal communication systems; portable computing; synchronization protocols; wireless networking; Communications technology; Computer networks; Distributed computing; IP networks; Mobile computing; Multimedia computing; Multimedia systems; Portable computers; Streaming media; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2001. Proceedings. LCN 2001. 26th Annual IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1321-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2001.990845

Filename

990845