A Service Oriented Architecture for Personalized Universal Media Access

Sascha Tönnies, Benjamin Köhncke, Patrick Hennig, Ingo Brunkhorst and Wolf-Tilo Balke
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Sascha Tönnies: Forschungszentrum L3S, Appelstraße 9a, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
Benjamin Köhncke: Forschungszentrum L3S, Appelstraße 9a, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
Patrick Hennig: Forschungszentrum L3S, Appelstraße 9a, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
Ingo Brunkhorst: Forschungszentrum L3S, Appelstraße 9a, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
Wolf-Tilo Balke: Forschungszentrum L3S, Appelstraße 9a, D-30167 Hannover, Germany

Future Internet, 2011, vol. 3, issue 2, 1-30

Abstract: Multimedia streaming means delivering continuous data to a plethora of client devices. Besides the actual data transport, this also needs a high degree of content adaptation respecting the end users’ needs given by content preferences, transcoding constraints, and device capabilities. Such adaptations can be performed in many ways, usually on the media server. However, when it comes to content editing, like mixing in subtitles or picture-in-picture composition, relying on third party service providers may be necessary. For economic reasons this should be done in a service-oriented way, because a lot of adaptation modules can be reused within different adaptation workflows. Although service-oriented architectures have become widely accepted in the Web community, the multimedia environment is still dominated by monolithic systems. The main reason is the insufficient support for working with continuous data: generally the suitability of Web services for handling complex data types and state-full applications is still limited. In this paper we discuss extensions of Web service frameworks, and present a first implementation of a service-oriented framework for media streaming and digital item adaptation. The focus lies on the technical realization of the services. Our experimental results show the practicality of the actual deployment of service-oriented multimedia frameworks.

Keywords: service-oriented architecture; web services interoperability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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