In a distributed environment, mobile code can be used to dynamically adapt a server in order to take into account the characteristics of the underlying environment. It cal also extend the services offered by the server. In this paper, we present an experiment which consists in adapting a multimedia application using mobile agents programmed in Java. In this distributed application, an agent is sent a video server in order to adapt the transmitted video streams. Our experiment shows that such adaptations reduce significantly the CPU load on the client machine (by transferring it to the server), reduce the network traffic and provide customized failure handling.
['Daniel Hagimont', 'Nabil Layaïda']
Adaptation d'une application multimédia par un code mobile