Quick accessible mobile video system based on pre-downloading, pre-fetching and streaming technologies (original) (raw)

A light-weight, smooth, and quick-responsible accessibility to contents are truly needed for a practical usage of the mobile video services. We research on and develop a new innovative mobile video technology, which utilizes pre-download, pre-fetching and asynchronous network streaming schemes. This paper describes its innovative mechanisms, especially an asynchronous streaming technique and an asynchronous thumbnail data pre-fetching technique. Two prototype implementations of mobile video client are described in detail, and performance evaluations are given at the end of this paper.