@conference {2806, title = {Streaming multimedia data with adaptive QoS characteristics}, booktitle = {5th International Conference on Protocols for Multimedia Systems-PROMS 2000, Cracow, Poland}, year = {2000}, month = {22 - 25 October}, pages = { 129 - 139}, abstract = {In this paper, we describe the design and the implementation of an adaptive streaming architecture, which is based on real time protocols. The adaptive streaming application, which we have developed, can be used for streaming multimedia data over heterogeneous networks like the Internet and has the capability to adapt the streaming of multimedia data to network changes. The adaptive streaming application uses a friendly to the network users congestion control mechanism to control the transmission of the media. We evaluate the adaptive streaming application through a number of experiments. During these experiments, we demonstrate the friendly behaviour of the adaptive streaming application to TCP and UDP data streams.}, author = {Christos Bouras and Apostolos Gkamas} }