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Adaptive Delivery of Multimedia Data in Heterogeneous and Mobile Environments

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Mobile Data Management (MDM 2001)

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This paper discusses the sources of variability in heterogeneous and mobile networks that make it difficult for traditional applications to work properly. The problems associated with delivering multimedia content to clients of varying capabilities are also investigated. Adaptivity is presented as a tool to extend the lifetime of critical applications as well as a technique to meet client device variability. To this end we have developed prototypes for the mobile environments that aim to reduce dependency on scarce resources. The adaptation space framework is used to provide a flexible and consistent design strategy.

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    Mqhele Nzama, Alexander Ng & Arkady Zaslavsky

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  1. Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, 3 Science Drive 2, 117543, Singapore

    Kian-Lee Tan

  2. Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley EECS, 387 Soda Hall 1776, 94720-1776, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Michael J. Franklin

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering Shatin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, N.T.,Hong Kong, China

    John Chi-Shing Lui

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Nzama, M., Ng, A., Zaslavsky, A. (2001). Adaptive Delivery of Multimedia Data in Heterogeneous and Mobile Environments. In: Tan, KL., Franklin, M.J., Lui, J.CS. (eds) Mobile Data Management. MDM 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1987. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44498-X_4

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