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Improving quality of service for streaming multimedia applications in ubiquitous mobile environment

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Despite the great potential demonstrated by the multimedia-rich data in various business applications, none of the prior research has addressed the design of high-quality access to the multimedia content in heterogeneous wireless networking environment. In this research, we have presented a partial pre-retrieval and buffering scheme to improve various quality of service (QoS) parameters for multimedia content for in such context. Specifically it addresses the three important QoS parameters namely delay, delay variation, and information loss that directly impact the mobile user's quality of experience indicators. Here we have also presented the analysis of the buffering requirements and the related issues for high-quality access to the multimedia content in such environment. Results of this research have potential to improve the understanding of these multimedia QoS parameters for ubiquitous wireless infrastructures.

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