Progressive meshes transmission over a wired-to-wireless network

The evolution of mobile network and the popularization of mobile devices; the demand for multimedia services and 3D graphics applications on limited resource devices is more contemporary. Most of the works on multimedia transmission are focused on bit errors and packet losses due to the fading channel environment of a wireless network. Error resilient multimedia is significant research topic which can be adapted to the different conditions in a wireless environment. The current solutions in transmission of multimedia across different networks include some type of transcoder where the source is partially or fully decoded, and re-encoded to suit the network conditions. This paper introduces a flexible progressive coding framework for 3D meshes, which can be adapted to the different conditions imposed by wired and wireless channels at the bitstream level. By avoiding the computationally complex steps of transcoding between networks, could deteriorate decoded model quality. The framework also allows refined degradation of model quality when the network conditions are poor due to congestion or deep fades. Xiaonan Luo, male, born in Feb. 1963 in Jiangxi Province, China, Ph. D., completed his post-doctorate training in Mar. 1995. He is a professor and Ph. D. advisor of the School of Information Science and Technology, and the Chairman of Computer Application Institute of Sun Yat-sen University. His current interests are in mobile graphics transmission and 3D geometric simulation methods. He enjoys the government special allowance granted by the State Council of China. He won the National Science & Technology Progress Prize awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the National Natural Science Funds granted by the National Nature Science Foundation of China. Guifeng Zheng, male, born in Jan. 1977 in Guangdong Province, China, Ph. D., received his Ph.D. degree from Sun Yat-sen University in 2005. He is currently an research assistant in the Computer Application Institute of Sun Yat-sen University. His research interests span the areas of wireless networks and mobile graphics computing.