Study and design of the video for resource limited mobile communication

Abstract

Multimedia files such as image, audio, and video are in general very large in size. The limitations of the current mobile communications technology with respect to media storage and bandwidth make transmission of large-size multimedia files very difficult. In this paper, we explore the use of compression technique along with video coding for designing a video transmission framework which can be applied in mobile communication networks such as GPRS or UMTS which have limited bandwidth. We develop applications for video transmission on a mobile client-server system using streaming technique. We present the simulation and experiment results of the video streaming process implemented in a peer-to-peer environment using video coding with different protocols such as HTTP, RTP and RSTP. The proposed framework is then applied to develop a mobile telemedicine system.