An Adaptable Architecture for Mobile Streaming Applications

Many emerging mobile applications and services require playback of streaming media. In this paper we describe an adaptable system architecture to implement mobile streaming services. The main components of this architecture are the streaming server, the multicast proxy and the mobile client. The main novelty of our approach lies on the client which is designed to fit most mobile devices. The streaming servers and client are all compliant with 3GPP standards, and therefore use the Session Description Protocol (SDP), Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), and Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP), as well as the Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) audio media standard.