Thin-Client Computing for Supporting the QoS of Streaming Media in Mobile Devices (original) (raw)

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Due to the limited resources in thin-clients on mobile devices and the large amount of computation for decoding streaming media, it is not easy to support the QoS of streaming media for thin-client on mobile environment. To solve the problems, the terminal servers would be charged for decoding the streaming media and thin-clients have a role to update only the changed areas in their screen. In this paper, an intelligent media player is proposed to provide the improved QoS for streaming media in thin-client computing. Since the proposed method reflects the intrinsic property of streaming media, it provides both the enhanced video quality and the audio streaming fully synchronized with image frames.

This work was partially supported by the Kangwon Institute of Telecommunications and Information, grant No. B1220-0401-0203 from the University Fundamental Research Program of the Ministry of Information & Communication in Republic of Korea, and Basic Research Program of the Korea Science Engineering Foundation (KOSEF).

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, 200-701, Korea
    Joahyoung Lee, Dongmahn Seo, Yoon Kim, Changyeol Choi, Hwangkyu Choi & Inbum Jung

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  1. Joahyoung Lee
  2. Dongmahn Seo
  3. Yoon Kim
  4. Changyeol Choi
  5. Hwangkyu Choi
  6. Inbum Jung

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada
    Marina L. Gavrilova
  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy
    Osvaldo Gervasi
  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA
    Vipin Kumar
  4. OptimaNumerics Ltd., Cathedral House, 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK
    C. J. Kenneth Tan
  5. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia
    David Taniar
  6. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy
    Antonio Laganá
  7. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea
    Youngsong Mun
  8. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
    Hyunseung Choo

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Lee, J., Seo, D., Kim, Y., Choi, C., Choi, H., Jung, I. (2006). Thin-Client Computing for Supporting the QoS of Streaming Media in Mobile Devices. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3981. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751588\_59

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