Selective multimedia access protocol for wireless multimedia communication

Users desire to use multimedia applications such as browsing WWW and VoD in not only desktop computing environment but also wireless or mobile computing environment. A wireless link, however, is generally poor in quality to accommodate multimedia communication. We propose a content-based multimedia communication protocol for wireless environment. It adopts the selective transport service according to content-based priority, assigned to each scene of multimedia data, so that a user can get important information even if available bandwidth is insufficient for the multimedia data.