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Eighth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
p. 602
VOD services for mobile wireless devices
D. Bruneo, University of Messina
M. Villari, University of Messina
A. Zaia, University of Messina
A. Puliafito, University of Messina
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Wireless devices are becoming very popular and powerful
enough to be commonly adopted to access distributed
services. More and more sophisticated applications
are being developed and a very promising market
is quickly being established where mobile users may access
multimedia data while roaming from a cell to another,
anytime and everywhere. Such scenario requires
a strong infrastructure in order to adequately manage
all the different issues related with high level service
provisioning. QoS represents one of the most crucial
issues as it involves many different aspects and directly
impacts the user satisfaction. In order to achieve this
target, we propose an architecture which allows mobile
devices to access advanced services available in the
wired part of the network. This architecture, based on
mobile agents technology, assumes the presence of a
VOD Virtual Server. The strategy adopted is to hide
all the basic mechanisms inside a middleware layer
that provides the necessary interfaces to allow a simple
interaction between the user on the one side and
the network and the distributed services on the other.
The overall architecture, that is currently being implemented
and tested, has been used as an experimental
environment to provide mobile users with a new service
to access MPEG-4 flows.
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Citation:
D. Bruneo, M. Villari, A. Zaia, A. Puliafito,
"VOD services for mobile wireless devices,"
iscc,
p. 602,
Eighth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications,
2003
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