system maintains a virtual community for the consumption of CCM multimedia elements, i.e. both content generated by end users and content from professional multimedia provider (e.g., Video on Demand). The consumption involves a series of interrelated multimedia intensive processes such as content creation, aggregation, annotation, etc. In the context of CCM, these interrelated multimedia intensive processes are encapsulated into Web services, instead of multimedia applications, namely multimedia intensive services, briefly multimedia services.
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Middleware for Community Coordinated Multimedia
Jiehan Zhou (University of Oulu, Finland), Zhonghong Ou (University of Oulu, Finland), Junzhao Sun (University of Oulu, Finland), Mika Rautiainen (University of Oulu, Finland), and Mika Ylianttila (University of Oulu, Finland)
Copyright: © 2010
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-661-7.ch029
Abstract
Community Coordinated Multimedia (CCM) envisions a novel paradigm that enables the user to consume multiple media through requesting multimedia-intensive Web services via diverse display devices, converged networks, and heterogeneous platforms within a virtual, open and collaborative community. These trends yield new requirements for CCM middleware. This chapter aims to systematically and extensively describe middleware challenges and opportunities to realize the CCM paradigm by reviewing the activities of middleware with respect to four viewpoints, namely mobility-aware, multimedia-driven, service-oriented, and community-coordinated.