Multimedia client implementation on Personal Digital Assistants
- Markus Lauff,
- Hans-Werner Gellersen
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Abstract
Their small size and ease of use makes Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) very attractive for inclusion as clients in mobile multimedia applications. Alas, the cost for integration of PDA in distributed multimedia systems is high, as the resource limitations on PDA require client adaptation, and as software development on PDA is comparatively expensive. We present PocketWeb, a tool facilitating PDA integration in multimedia applications based on the web protocols while freeing application developers from PDA specific software development. We have applied PocketWeb for integration of PDA as multimedia clients in MILLION, a distributed multimedia system developed in an ESPRIT project.
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- Title
- Multimedia client implementation on Personal Digital Assistants
- Book Title
- Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services
- Book Subtitle
- 4th International Workshop, IDMS '97 Darmstadt, Germany, September 10–12, 1997 Proceedings
- Pages
- pp 283-295
- Copyright
- 1997
- DOI
- 10.1007/BFb0000360
- Print ISBN
- 978-3-540-63519-2
- Online ISBN
- 978-3-540-69590-5
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Series Volume
- 1309
- Series ISSN
- 0302-9743
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
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- Multimedia Client
- Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
- Mobile Computing
- Mobile Multimedia Applications
- Multimedia Software Development
- Industry Sectors
- eBook Packages
- Editors
- Authors
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Markus Lauff
(1)
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Hans-Werner Gellersen
(1)
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Markus Lauff
- Author Affiliations
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- 1. TecO- Telecooperation Office, University of Karlsruhe, Vincenz-Prießnitz-Str. 1-76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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