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Mobistream: Live Multimedia Streaming in Mobile Devices

Authors:
Chrysa Papadaki
Vana Kalogeraki

Keywords: live multimedia streaming, Android platform, streaming protocol, resource-constrained devices

Abstract:
In recent years, many techniques have been proposed so as to enable resource-constrained devices to consume or deliver live multimedia streams. The majority of the existing techniques use distributed multimedia services and powerful servers to handle streams on behalf of clients. This is due to the fact that, multimedia streaming, when smartphones act as both clients and servers, can generate many challenges due to the heterogeneity of the multimedia streaming protocols, the media formats and codecs supported by today's smartphones. In addition, multimedia processing is resource consuming and, in many cases, unsuitable for a plethora of resource-constrained devices. To overcome these challenges, we present MobiStream a device-to-device multimedia streaming system for resource-constrained devices that achieves efficient handling of live multimedia streams. The design of MobiStream architecture provides solutions to several issues including resource constraints, streaming among heterogeneous operating systems and platforms, generation, synchronization and presentation of multimedia streams. We have developed the MobiStream prototype system on Java 2 SE and Android platforms; this paper presents the implementation details and the experimental evaluation of our system.

Pages: 100 to 108

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: April 21, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4448

ISBN: 978-1-61208-265-3

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 21, 2013 to April 26, 2013