Multimedia Service Delivery on Next-Generation Platforms: A Survey on the Need for Control, Adaptation and Inter-Mediation

With the increasing popularity of interactive and innovative multimedia streaming applications on mobile devices, the next-generation communication platforms are expected to be ready for such multimedia service delivery. This paper highlights the technical hurdles that arise due to end-user/device mobility and investigates an optimal multimedia service delivery mechanism to deal with mobility-related issues. The proposed solution called the "Mobility and Quality'' Service enabler uses media control and mediation to offer cross-layered, application-independent solution to multimedia service delivery. The paper also presents preliminary experiments and results.