Internetworking multimedia over mobile and wireless ad hoc networks, usually requires real-time multimedia applications to include some intelligent adaptive capabilities. These capabilities allow these applications to adapt to the constantly and unpredictable changing network conditions, making the user perceive a good quality rather than a variable quality with continuous blackouts. Modeling the end-user perception of the quality that the multimedia application delivers, is a crucial issue to take into account when deciding when to change the application settings in terms of codecs, frame rates, video sizes, etc. We present our inductive approach to obtain a decision rule set to take such decisions.
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