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Synchronization Techniques in Distributed Multimedia Presentation

Authors:
Shahab Ud Din
Dick Bulterman

Keywords: distributed; multimedia; jitter; temporal relations; synchronization.

Abstract:
In the last two decades, the transmission of multimedia streams using best effort network has been an attractive research area in multimedia communication. Multimedia streams have well defined temporal relations within themselves, generated when captured at the sender. At receiver these temporal relations have to be reconstructed to ensure smooth and synchronized multimedia presentation. The characteristics of best effort network –delay and jitter- degrade the temporal relations present in multimedia streams. Many methods have been proposed in order to mitigate the effect of network delay and jitter on the media streams. This paper classifies the work in the field of distributed multimedia synchronization. We have illustrated the techniques used in the three different multimedia synchronization types, namely, intra-media synchronization, inter-media synchronization and inter-destination synchronization.

Pages: 1 to 9

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: April 29, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4448

ISBN: 978-1-61208-195-3

Location: Chamonix, France

Dates: from April 29, 2012 to May 4, 2012