Innovative directions in self-organized distributed multimedia systems

The way by which multimedia contents are produced, delivered across networks, and consumed by intended users have shifted significantly during the past 10 years. In this paper we postulate that, in the near future, flexible and self-organizing facilities will play a dominating role in distributed mu...

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Published inMultimedia tools and applications Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 525 - 553
Main Authors Böszörmenyi, Laszlo, del Fabro, Manfred, Kogler, Marian, Lux, Mathias, Marques, Oge, Sobe, Anita
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston Springer US 2011
Springer Nature B.V
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Summary:The way by which multimedia contents are produced, delivered across networks, and consumed by intended users have shifted significantly during the past 10 years. In this paper we postulate that, in the near future, flexible and self-organizing facilities will play a dominating role in distributed multimedia systems. We discuss how such systems can be designed, using a three-layer (sensor, distribution, and user layer) architecture, SOMA (Self Organizing Multimedia Architecture), as an example. We also present innovative directions in three main aspects of self-organized multimedia systems: (i) the self-organizing aspects of multimedia user communities, e.g., the wisdom, intentions, and needs of users; (ii) a fresh look at video streams that treat them as a collection of units that can be composed taking user and network aspects into account; and (iii) new delivery paradigms and how self-organization and multimedia delivery can be combined.
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ISSN:1380-7501
1573-7721
DOI:10.1007/s11042-010-0622-z