Use of Smartphones and cellular networks is becoming an increasing priority for military applications. By placing the source of information directly with the solider on the ground via a Smartphone, the vision of every soldier a sensor becomes attainable. mZeal proposes to facilitate this vision with the Adaptive Multi-Media Streaming for Android (AMMSTAR) system. AMMSTAR will capture photographic and video imagery on an Android Smartphone and transfer it directly to the receiver in real-time in a network adaptive manner. Based on mZeals highly successful Bandwidth Mediation System (BMS), AMMSTAR will monitor the cellular or WiFi link over which it is communicating, and dynamically adapt its multi-media output to adjust to the demanding bandwidth constraints posed by tactical network. It will do so by utilizing a variety of bandwidth-conserving adaptations, including frame-rate change, quality variation, gray-scale, video-only and audio-only adaptations.
Keywords: Android Application, Mobile Live Streaming, Smartphone, Adaptive Video, Tactical Cellular Networks, Flash Video, Isr, Tele-Medicine
