Multiple types of information and comunication medium

Elastic applications

Multimedia applications

Types of access of the media player

Download + http

Progressive download

Progressive download-http

Progressive download. Funcionality

Streaming

Streaming. HTTP, multimedia server

Streaming. Functionality

Example meta-file

Comparison download vs. streaming

Comparison
progressive download vs. streaming

Types of streaming applications

File streaming

Live streaming

Interactive streaming

Comparison types of multimedia applications

Challenges on the Internet: problems

Best-effort service limitation for multimedia

Challenges on the Internet: solutions

Multimedia characteristics

Access via communication networks introduces two characteristics

Functionality of a media player

Best-effort service: Hop delay to E2E delay

Best-effort service: Hop delay

End-to-end delay – variability of the queue delay

Packet loss

Jitter

Buffering