Automatic resumption of streaming sessions over wireless communications using agents

Abstract

Media streaming technology consists of simultaneously downloading and reproducing multimedia objects from the Internet without the need to store all the information in the client's memory. This technology is very appropriate for client applications running on portable computing devices (cell phones and hand-held devices) due to their limited memory and bandwidth resources. A serious problem that has not been fully examined by other researchers is the control of temporary and intermittent disconnections due to lack of coverage, and its influence on the performance of media streaming. The aim of this paper is to describe an efficient solution based on agents running over WiFi networks.