Smart JPIP Proxy Server with Prefetching Strategies

Remote browsing of images is receiving much attention lately, mostly in niche applications like geographical information systems or in the telemedicine scenery. Interactive transmission of compressed images has been identified as the most competitive approach, being JPIP, JPEG2000 Interactive Protocol, a key-enabler for these situations. Also, it has been reported that JPIP Proxy Servers help to increase the transmission performance, and that prefetching strategies help to lower responsiveness time. In this paper we contribute a smart JPIP Proxy Server that, thanks to a prefetching strategy undertaken during idle transmission times, largely improves the viewing experience of the final user because of its anticipation of future navigation requests. Experimental results are reported for a remote sensing and a medical environment, respectively performing panning and zoom in, showing enhanced performance in both cases.

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