MIND Terminal Auto-adaptability to Achieve a Better User-Perceived QoS in Networks beyond 3G

Adaptive applications are a key concept to take into account when dealing with multimedia internetworking in wireless and mobile environments in which abrupt changes in the network conditions may occur. Using adaptation techniques at application layer is one of the solutions that allow multimedia applications to minimise the impact of vertical handovers in their performance, so that QoS perceived by the user remains in an acceptable level. This can be characterized by means of some tests and their empirical results.