Urueña Pascual, ManuelLarrabeiti López, DavidCalderón Pastor, María CarmenAzcorra Saloña, ArturoKristensen, Jens E.Kroll Kristensen, LarsExpósito, ErnestoGarduno, DavidDíaz, Michel2008-09-082008-09-082002Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia. IDMS-PROMS'2002. Pp. 353-364 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2515)978-3-540-00169-00302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)https://hdl.handle.net/10016/2931Proceedings of Joint International Workshops on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Protocols for Multimedia Systems, IDMS/PROMS 2002 Coimbra, Portugal, November 26-29, 2002.This paper summarizes a pragmatic technical approach to active networks that supports prototyping of multimedia transport protocols. One of the targets of the architecture defined is the extension of the processing capabilities of existing routers trying to keep up the forwarding performance of regular packets. This work presents practical results obtained from the development of a Java execution environment based on the design principles presented and proposes a method for the transparent deployment of multimedia relays over a source-destination path, tested in several experiments.application/pdftext/plainengconference proceedingsTelecomunicaciones10.1007/3-540-36166-9_30open access