Adaptation techniques for ubiquitous Internet multimedia
We identify the importance of adaptation for the ubiquitous access to Internet multimedia content. The variety of media types combined with the diversity of Internet connection characteristics raises momentous challenges to the achievement of this goal. With adaptation, the characteristics of various media can be adjusted to better match those of the network path and the end device. As a result, adaptive streams enjoy superior robustness and provide substantially better presentation quality than traditional, non-adaptive ones, especially in variable, capacity-limited environments.
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