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Innovative directions in self-organized distributed multimedia systems

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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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The SOMA project has been funded by the Lakeside Labs Research and Technology Center, Klagenfurt and by the Klagenfurt University, Austria. Further thanks go to Wilfried Elmenreich, Christoph Kofler, Arthur Pitman, Felix Pletzer, Bernhard Rinner, Klaus Schöffmann, Markus Strohmaier, Roland Tusch and Stefan Wieser for their ongoing work on the topic and their help.

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    Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Manfred del Fabro, Marian Kogler, Mathias Lux & Anita Sobe

  2. Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL, 33431, USA

    Oge Marques

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Böszörmenyi, L., del Fabro, M., Kogler, M. et al. Innovative directions in self-organized distributed multimedia systems. Multimed Tools Appl 51, 525–553 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-010-0622-z

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