An agent protocol for multimedia over IP

Abstract

In this paper, we propose the new multimedia service architecture with agent aided protocol, so called APMN (agent protocol for multimedia networking), which has been implemented over TCP/IP network. APMN produces more effective utilization of network resources, and ensures more multimedia services to the user than a conventional client-server architecture that is spread over the network. The empirical result of implementation shows that the media-agent informs the location of the media-server to the client, and can restrict the number of clients which are provided with multimedia services from one server by considering the status of that server.