High-Performance Solutions for Adaptive and Customizable Streaming of Interactive Content to Mobile Devices

Abstract

Recent improvements in technology have opened new, intriguing, and challenging scenarios for the latest generation of mobile devices, and users are asking for an ever larger spectrum of applications. In particular, implementation of interactive applications is an exciting task. In spite of the continuous improvements in the hardware components of mobile devices, several applications are still based on the remote visualization paradigm that adopts streaming based solutions. Nevertheless, some interactive applications introduce hard constraints to be met when low-delay systems have to be designed. Moreover, these systems have to cope with unstable network bandwidth and limited device capabilities. This Chapter first reviews classic strategies to design and implement remote visualization architectures and then presents recent developments regarding high-performance solutions for streaming interactive and customizable contents to mobile devices. In particular, the newest techniques that are specifically able to efficiently cope with bandwidth fluctuations are discussed, and a comparison between optimization based and control based approaches is addressed.