Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN)

Data Type Specific Transmission Layer

This layer provides specialized functions for applications to manage the transport of data type specific objects. Multimedia applications process audio, video, image, and other semantically rich data types. We are implementing mechanisms to support alternative representations and compression/decompression schemes for commonly encountered data types for multimedia applications to allow a flexible trade-off between bandwidth and latency, based on the network selected for connectivity and the relative cost of using that network, such as network load and billing costs.
Randy H. Katz, ed., randy@cs.Berkeley.edu; Last edited: 21 APR 95