Light protocol and buffer management for automatically recovering streaming sessions in WiFi mobile telephones

Abstract

The media streaming technology is very appropriate for client applications running on mobile telephones due to its limited memory and bandwidth. A serious problem that has not been fully solved is the control of temporary client disconnections due to the lack of coverage, because it causes the closing of the current session and forces the opening of a new one with the corresponding loss of efficiency. Moreover, the software for developing a mobile telephone streaming client is in its infancy: The implementation of robust software that automatically recovers a streaming session is very difficult. The aim of this paper is to show a new light protocol and buffer management to efficiently support wireless multimedia communication disruptions and to recover the streaming session automatically. We are the first to obtain a working software in a commercial mobile telephone supporting disruption and maintaining constant the input throughput to the streaming Client.