The advantage of degrading the QoS of a multimedia session is that it reduces the network bandwidth required for distributed multimedia applications, increasing the number of users that a multimedia server can support concurrently. Experimentation shows that users perceive a reduced frame rate for a continuous-media stream differently, depending on the content.
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